On the record · Updated October 19, 2026

Kirill Dmitriev quotes

Russian presidential envoy

2 things Kirill Dmitriev said, verbatim, from September 7, 2026 to October 17, 2026, each linked to where it ran. Grouped by the questions at issue, with who supported, disputed, or qualified each one.

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Oct 17latest entry

Positions

Trump was right to waive the Russia sanctions and tariffs in the Graham Act.

Supports Oct 17

“The Trump administration’s suspension of the Graham Act is an important and truly historic moment.”

The Guardian Trump waives the Russia sanctions he signed into law last month ›

Others on this question

Don Bacon Republican representative from Nebraska Disputes

“the president is prolonging the war, not ending it”

Richard Blumenthal Democratic senator from Connecticut, co-drafter of the Graham Act Disputes

“These waivers have nothing to do with our national security, and everything to do with sucking up to Vladimir Putin”

Donald Trump US president Supports

“I have submitted to the Congress a certification that the issuance of such a waiver at this time is in the national interests of the United States”

Kirill Dmitriev on Ukraine & Russia1

As printed Sep 7

“AfD’s historic win humiliates the arrogance, narrow-mindedness, warmongering, ineptitude and hypocrisy of the discredited German ruling coalition.”

on Russian official framing AfD's Saxony-Anhalt win as a blow to Germany's ruling coalition

CNN Germany’s far-right AfD win historic victory, but fall short of majority in Saxony-Anhalt ›

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