Frederik Pleitgen

Just messaged with Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on the Black Sea Grain deal and the moratorium on hitting energy infrastructure: “It’s important to remember that actually last time we attempted to implement Black sea deal. We fulfilled all the obligations, but obligations

President Trump‘s negotiator Steve Witkoff got emotional when he told Tucker Carlson about the Trump portrait Vladimir Putin ordered painted and how the Russian president prayed for Trump after he was shot while on the campaign trail last year. We asked folks in Moscow how they https://t.co/eI3LbKBtdR

Interviewed the head of Russia’s VTB Bank Andrey Kostin in Moscow. “I think we got already a Russian Big Mac, so I'm not sure whether we very much need McDonald's anymore. But I expect that there will be process of coming back,” he said about Western companies potentially https://t.co/L2hyVG8xeb

“I think we already have a Russian Big Mac, so I'm not sure whether we very much need McDonald's anymore. But I expect that there will be process of coming back,” the CEO of Russia’s VTB Bank, Andrey Kostin, told me in an interview at the Bank’s HQ. Russia’s stock market has https://t.co/EfiZwE4ETG

“Do you know who I am?” Was the first thing Viktor Bout, the former Russian arms dealer who was exchanged in a prisoner swap for Brittney Griner in late 2022 asked me when I bumped into him at a press event in Moscow. Bout is now a politician for Russia’s LDPR party and tells https://t.co/xZaem473lQ

Bumped into former Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout in Moscow who was in US jail for ten years and exchanged for Brittney Griner by the Biden Administration in 2022. However, Bout lashed out at Biden and praises @realDonaldTrump and his Russia policies - he also tells Americans to https://t.co/QLOqbYBSG5

Caught up with Russian nationalist philosopher Alexander Dugin, seen by some as Putin’s ideological architect and who just wrote a book called “the Trump Revolution” - I asked him about Western fears that @realDonaldTrump might be closer to Putin than to the U.S.’s allies. @CNN https://t.co/Q1i74ls4n8

As usual, important interview by the great @ronzheimer

Paul Ronzheimer @ronzheimer

BREAKING: In an exclusive interview with me, former Ukrainian President Poroshenko launches a scathing attack on Zelenskyy, defends Trump, and calls for a major shift in Ukraine’s military strategy. 🔹 Accuses Zelenskyy’s team of "moving the country to a dictatorship", while the https://t.co/rN71QAjVGJ

RT @ronzheimer: BREAKING: In an exclusive interview with me, former Ukrainian President Poroshenko launches a scathing attack on Zelenskyy,…

What @realDonaldTrump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are likely to talk about in their phone conversation on Tuesday @CNN #TikTok https://t.co/mGDb9HsHNT

Russian president Vladimir Putin says he is favor of a ceasefire in the Ukraine conflict but has significant “reservations.” An imminent ceasefire seems unlikely. Steve Witkoff was in Moscow briefing Russian officials. Our report for @AC360 @realDonaldTrump @CNN @cnni https://t.co/8bs0H3wc3X

RT @LConeCNN: "The main message, I think, from Putin today was he likes the idea of a ceasefire, but they're no fan of having one immediate…

As President Trump @realDonaldTrump says the ball is in Vladimir Putin‘s court to sign onto a proposed ceasefire, the Russian leader was in the Kursk region praising Russian gains and calling for more military action. There seems to be a disconnect between the pressure the West https://t.co/so3E4zWQI1

RT @ronzheimer: Neue Podcast-Folge: @fpleitgenCNN aus Moskau, ich aus Kyiv über Putins Antwort auf den Waffenstillstands-Vorschlag und sein…

RT @bopanc: One of the most interesting stories I’ve done for @WSJ: About half of humanity can trace its ancestry to a small band of nomad…

RT @MFeldenkirchen: Ein wieder mal hochkarätig besetzter #Apofika-Presseklub zur Weltlage: mit ⁦@KEigendorf, ⁦@fpleitgenCNN⁩ und ⁦@MichaelB…