Ukrainian intelligence has worked up a report on possible economic projects that the U.S. and Russia are considering, and they have dubbed it the “Dmitriev package,” according to Ukraine’s acting president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Kirill Dmitriev is the CEO of the Russian sovereign wealth fund and the Special Envoy to the U.S. on economic projects. On Feb. 7, Zelenskyy reported, according to the Kyiv Post: “Intelligence showed me the so-called ‘Dmitriev package’ that he presented in the U.S.—it amounts to around $12 trillion. It is supposedly a package of economic cooperation between America and Russia. So we are hearing about the possibility of such or similar bilateral documents between America and Russia” that are to be signed.
The most famous project associated with Dmitriev is the “Trump-Putin” Bering Sea Tunnel, where the rail and road link connecting Siberia and Alaska would be the centerpiece of vast transportation and infrastructure projects, providing commercially viable access to rich mineral and energy resources. While nothing in Zelenskyy’s comments indicated what the actual projects were, nor how the $12 trillion estimate was arrived at, he did state that the projects “definitely should not happen contrary to the interests of Ukrainians.”
Further, though he conceded that, probably, “some things in U.S.-Russia relations do not concern us,” he also seemed to suggest that the U.S. needs to show Kiev any plans that Russia has for the reconstruction of the four regions that voted to rejoin Russia, which would include rich mining projects and associated industrial projects.
It should be recalled that the 2014 overthrow of the elected Ukrainian government was prompted by its decision to collaborate on economic projects with China and Russia, against the wishes of the EU and Washington. While today, Ukraine would greatly benefit from such long-term infrastructure developments to make reconstruction possible—e.g., EIR’s “Draft Plan To Reconstruct and Develop Ukraine,” as found in “The LaRouche Plan for a New International Economic Architecture”—its so-called leaders have, for the last 12 years, functioned within a “lose-lose” geopolitical world, guaranteed to destroy what’s left of Ukraine.
