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Russian President Vladimir Putin told Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas that Russia is ready to send $1 billion in frozen Russian assets to the United States for President Donald Trump's Peace Council initiative to support the Palestinian people.
Putin also said that the idea of using frozen Russian assets for the Peace Board has been previously discussed with the United States, the Russian news agency Interfax reported.
Putin is expected to meet with US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner later today, with the Kremlin stressing the importance of bilateral economic and trade relations in the ongoing talks.
Meanwhile, Putin sought to distance himself from any role Moscow played in the Greenland debate on Wednesday, stating that "what is happening with Greenland does not concern us at all."
However, he did so while also providing a historical context that, in any case, seemed to refer to the ambitions of US President Donald Trump.
Speaking at a Security Council meeting on Wednesday, Putin mentioned Russia's sale of Alaska in 1867, noting that the US bought the territory for $7.2 million, a sum he estimated would be about $158 million today.
Putin then compared the size of Alaska to that of Greenland and suggested that, by the same logic, Greenland’s value could be “somewhere around $200–250 million,” or “closer to a billion” if calculated at historical gold prices. “I think the United States would be able to afford this amount,” he said.
He then mentioned another historic sale: that from Denmark of the Virgin Islands to the US in 1917.
Putin stressed that the issue “does not concern us” and that it should be resolved between Denmark and the US. “Denmark has always treated Greenland as a colony and has treated it quite harshly, not to say cruelly,” he added.
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