The negotiator with the United States Dmitriev called the price of the stupidity of the White House against Russia

Kirill Dmitriev, the head of RDIF, who is participating in negotiations with the American side, estimated the damage to the US economy from anti-Russian sanctions at $ 300 billion.

"Since [US President] Donald Trump admits that American companies have lost money due to US sanctions against Russia, we have already said this before: $300 billion is the stupidity of [former US President Joe] Biden," Dmitriev wrote on the social network in response to a foreign journalist's post with an assessment damage to the US economy from anti-Russian sanctions, which was made by Dmitriev in February 2025, quoted by TASS.

On June 16, on the sidelines of the Group of Seven summit in Kananaskis Trump said that he did not want to tighten sanctions against Russia, hoping to reach agreements on Ukraine, restrictions cost the West billions of dollars.

In early April, a bipartisan group of members of the US Senate introduced a bill with sanctions against Russia. The initiative also provides for secondary restrictions on Moscow's trading partners. The senators' proposal indicated duties of 500% on imports to the United States from countries that buy oil, gas, uranium and other goods from the Russian Federation. A similar initiative was presented in the House of Representatives of the Congress. Senator Rand Paul (Republican, from Kentucky) warned in an author's column published on the Responsible Statecraft portal that "the country that will suffer the most damage" as a result of the possible approval of this bill would be the United States itself — "both economically and strategically."