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Posted on August 14, 2025
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to his most senior ministers and security officials on the eve of a summit in Alaska with U.S. President Donald Trump, who is pressing for an end to the war in Ukraine.
The following is a list of those present as published by the Kremlin in the order the Kremlin published it.
* Anton Vaino - head of the Presidential Administration (chief of staff)
* Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of the Security Council
* Sergei Shoigu, secretary of the Security Council
* Denis Manturov, first deputy prime minister
* Alexei Gromov, first deputy head of the Presidential Administration
* Sergei Kiriyenko, first deputy head of the Presidential Administration
* Alexander Novak, deputy PM
* Maxim Oreshkin, deputy head of the Presidential Administration
* Dmitry Peskov, deputy head of the Presidential Administration and Putin's press secretary
* Vladimir Medinsky, Kremlin aide
* Yuri Ushakov, Kremlin aide
* Andrei Belousov, defence minister
* Sergei Lavrov, foreign minister
* Anton Siluanov, finance minister
* Elvira Nabiullina, Central Bank chief
* Alexander Bortnikov, director of the Federal Security Service (FSB)
* Viktor Zolotov, director of the National Guard
* Sergei Naryshkin, director of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR)
* Sergei Sobyanin, Moscow mayor
* Valery Gerasimov, chief of the General Staff
* Kirill Dmitriev, Putin's special representative for investment and economic cooperation with foreign countries, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund.
(Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge, editing by Philippa Fletcher)
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