The Kremlin‘s special envoy, tasked with smoothing economic quarrels with the White House, has maintained that peace is on the horizon in Ukraine despite a disastrous tour of the United States.

Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s special presidential representative for investment and economic cooperation, Kirill Dmitriev, was asked at an investment conference in Saudi Arabia whether there would be peace in Ukraine within a year.

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