Kirill Dmitriev first posted about the idea on Thursday, suggesting a “Putin-Trump” rail tunnel could connect the two countries under the Bering Strait, which separates Russia’s vast and sparsely populated Chukotka region from Alaska.
Asked about the idea during a press conference with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday, Donald Trump called it “interesting”.
He also asked President Zelenskyy what he made of it, to which Mr Zelenskyy replied: “I’m not happy with this idea.”
This prompted laughter from the US side.
Overnight, Mr Dmitriev posted on X, saying: "We have started the feasibility study of the Russia-Alaska tunnel six months ago.
The Russians have had rail in Siberia forever.
This was planned out 20+ years ago for cars and rail there just wasn’t ever the political will to do it.
It makes sense geographically. Not as much geopolitically.
And a fuckton of people died building it.
Died? It’s a plan on paper. No one ever built anything. And in 2025 it would be pretty low risk, TBMs are commonplace and we have drones.
Siberian rail
That’s how Russia does everything. Throw bodies at it. Not really an engineering necessity.