A senior official from Alternative for Germany (AfD) has met the boss of Gazprom and another close confidant of Russian President Vladimir Putin, in some of the highest-level meetings between the far-right party and Kremlin associates since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Markus Frohnmaier, the AfD’s foreign policy spokesman, met Alexey Miller, chief executive of Russia’s energy giant Gazprom, during a visit to St Petersburg, where the German lawmaker will appear at Putin’s flagship economic forum.
Frohnmaier, who also serves as the AfD’s deputy leader in the Bundestag, also met Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund and a special envoy for Putin. “Looking forward to building a great FUTURE together with AfD, Germany’s most popular party,” Dmitriev wrote on X.