Russian President Envoy Dmitriev says they will continue economic cooperation with the US, not only on diesel

Statements from Dmitriev carry a specific weight in this channel: as head of Russia's sovereign wealth fund and a designated liaison to the US side, he has been one of the principal conduits for the bilateral economic track, and his remarks have historically served as signalling rather than decision, testing receptivity and framing agenda items ahead of more formal contact. The reference to diesel is telling: cooperation framed around specific commodity flows points to trade-level deals rather than grand bargains, and in past episodes of sanctions-era rapprochement the sequence has run from rhetorical openness, to narrow carve-outs or licensing on specific products, to broader easing only much later and with reversals. The operative question is reciprocity, since continued cooperation requires the US side to hold sanctions relief or waivers in place, and that is where comparable frameworks have broken down. Comments of this kind have tended to move the rouble-sensitive and European energy complex only at the margin unless accompanied by a concrete measure such as a waiver, a purchase agreement, or a payment channel. Worth watching is whether any US official echoes the framing, whether specific products or counterparties are named next, and whether the freight and insurance mechanics for the cited flows actually shift.