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8 Oct, 2025 00:02

Biden provoked Ukraine war to cover up corruption – Putin aide

Kirill Dmitriev replied to recent revelations regarding the former US president’s dealings published by the CIA
Biden provoked Ukraine war to cover up corruption – Putin aide

Former US President Joe Biden provoked the Ukraine conflict to hide his family’s corrupt dealings, Kremlin investment aide Kirill Dmitriev said on X on Tuesday.

He was commenting on a set of CIA documents declassified by the agency’s director, John Ratcliffe, earlier in the day. 

In 2016, then-Vice President Biden asked the CIA to cover up a report about his family’s alleged business dealings in Ukraine, according to an email published in the records.

“The truth is coming out – and justice must follow,” Dmitriev said.

The former US president’s family has long been linked to Ukrainian gas company Burisma. His son Hunter Biden, a convicted felon, was paid millions to sit on the company’s board during his time as vice president.

According to the contents of the infamous Hunter Biden laptop, which he abandonned at a Delaware repair shop in 2019, 10% of proceeds from international contracts went to “the Big Guy” – widely assumed to be a reference to his father.

Since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022, Moscow has characterized the fighting as a NATO proxy war against Russia.

During the course of the conflict, Biden severed US-Russia relations, which plunged to their lowest point since the Cold War.

Since the start of his second term in office, US President Donald Trump has moved to renew diplomatic relations with Russia, engaging Moscow in several rounds of talks which culminated in a summit with President Vladimir Putin in Alaska earlier this year.

On August 15, 2025, Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump held a meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, to discuss ways to end the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The two leaders spoke for three hours, afterwards praising the talks as productive and promising of a breakthrough. During the summit, Putin insisted on the necessity of a lasting peace settlement, as opposed to a ceasefire Kiev and its EU backers have been calling for. Trump emerged from the talks sharing this sentiment. He also said Ukraine may have to give up territories in order for this settlement to take place – something Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky categorically rejects.
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