“Reuters with reference to sources wrote that during the negotiations this month, in order to reach peace in Ukraine, representatives of the US and Russia government discussed several energy agreements – and after the Alaska White House summit wanted to announce a major investment agreement.”, – WRITE: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: “European Truth” with reference to Reuters
Details: According to knowledgeable sources, these agreements were proposed as incentives to encourage the Kremlin to agree to peace in Ukraine, and Washington – to mitigate sanctions against Russia.
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Three sources reported that the officials discussed the possibility of returning Exxon Mobil to the Russian oil and gas project “Sakhalin-1”.
The sources also reported that the issue of the possibility of Russian equipment for its production of liquefied natural gas, including “Arctic ZPG-2”, which is under Western sanctions, had been raised.
Another idea was that the US would acquire nuclear icebreakers in Russia.
The corresponding negotiations took place during the visit of the American envoy Steve Vitcoff to Moscow early this month, when he met with Russian leader Vladimir Putin and his investment messenger Kirill Dmitriev, three sources reported.
These agreements were also briefly discussed at Alaska Summit on August 15, one source said.
“The White House wanted to go out with headlines after Alaska summit, announcing a major investment agreement. So Trump feels that he has achieved something,” one of the sources said.
On the same day as the summit on Alaska took place, Putin signed a decree that could allow foreign investors, including Exxon Mobil, to return the particles in the Sakhalin-1 project. It depends on whether foreign shareholders will take measures to support the abolition of Western sanctions against Russia.
Exxon left the Russian business in 2022 after a full -scale invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine, having suffered losses of $ 4.6 billion. Its 30 percent share in the Sakhalin-1 project in the Far East of Russia was confiscated by the Russian Federation that year.
The United States has imposed a few waves of sanctions against the Russian project “Arctic ZPG-2”, since 2022, and cut off access to the ice-class vessels that are needed to work in the region for most of the year.
One source reported that Washington seeks to encourage Russia to buy American technologies, not Chinese, as part of a broader strategy for the purpose of removing China and weakening relations between Beijing and Moscow.
Recall: On August 21, US President Donald Trump said he would be able to evaluate the possibility of reaching peace in Ukraine “within two weeks.”
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