WASHINGTON (dpa-AFX) – The idea put forward by Moscow of a tunnel between Russian Siberia and US Alaska has not been received with much enthusiasm by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “I’m not happy about it,” the Ukrainian said in response to a direct question from US President Donald Trump to journalists in Washington. Trump had previously described the project as “interesting”.
After a phone call between the Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin and Trump, Russian special envoy Kirill Dmitriev wrote on Platform X on Thursday about a “Putin-Trump tunnel” under the Bering Strait connecting Eurasia and America. To X owner’s drilling company Elon Musk He put the possible costs at the equivalent of less than seven billion euros. The idea of such a railway connection is more than 100 years old but has been rejected several times due to the immense costs and the complete lack of transport infrastructure in the polar regions.
Trump is mediating between Moscow and Kiev to end the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, which has been going on for over three and a half years. Zelenskyj hopes to receive new support and, above all, weapons from the USA during his visit to Washington./ast/DP/he