One bought his power with a ham sandwich and cheese, the other with a photo model. Who are the ‘fixers’ of Trump and Putin?

Steve Witkoff and Kirill Dmitriëv have a lot in common. The two men who are now central to the negotiations between Trump and Putin never worked as a diplomat. They were businessmen who managed to work in the circle of friends of their head of state. One via a sandwichbar, the other via a daughter of the president. They are both lobbyists of the kind that usually stays in the shade, but not hesitates to wring the opposing party an arm to wring – this is how our double portrait of the ‘fixers’ learns.

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