New U.S. administration has strong ties with Kremlin - Feygin

He spoke about this on Espreso TV.

"The connection between the new U.S. administration and the Kremlin is already quite strong," Feygin said. 

"Remember the discussions about the first calls - when Trump and Putin, Musk and Putin started communicating? It’s now clear that this began much earlier, not after the U.S. elections on November 5, 2024, when Trump won, but even before that. The issues that now seem unexpected to us, just 4-5 weeks after Trump’s inauguration, were actually prepared long in advance. For us, it’s a few weeks, but for Trump and his circle, it was a long process of negotiations, adjustments, and finding common ground with the Kremlin and Putin."

In his view, these are not spontaneous actions by the Trump administration. Within five weeks, they established a track to Riyadh, negotiating the reopening of embassies, cooperation parameters on Ukraine, and European security issues.

"We saw these as mere contacts. Musk didn’t deny speaking with Putin by phone. We assumed U.S. intelligence was monitoring these interactions and aware of upcoming agreements and their parameters. But it turns out that wasn’t entirely the case. The groundwork was likely laid much earlier. Typically, the first five weeks are spent on organizational and administrative matters. Yet here, they are already discussing Arctic development and the redistribution of Ukraine’s resource base - let alone UN resolutions and anti-European plans targeting the EU’s economic independence. We see a close connection between the U.S. administration and the Kremlin everywhere," the opposition politician commented.

Feygin believes Trump is pushing as far as the U.S. establishment allows — that’s the problem. The "deep state," Congress, and others have yet to speak. If they remain silent, Trump will keep going.

• On February 28, US President Donald Trump said that he supported both sides in the Russian war against Ukraine and added that he wanted the war to end.