Siberia-Alaska hyperlink may ‘unlock’ sources and be constructed with Elon Musk’s The Boring Firm, says Kirill Dmitriev.
A Kremlin envoy has proposed constructing an undersea tunnel linking the USA and Russia, suggesting it might be constructed with the assistance of US billionaire Elon Musk’s The Boring Firm.
Kremlin funding envoy Kirill Dmitriev mentioned that the 112-kilometre (70-mile) “railroad and cargo hyperlink” between Siberia and Alaska would “unlock joint useful resource exploration” between the 2 nations.
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US President Donald Trump, who has promised to “drill, baby drill” throughout his second time period, informed reporters on Friday that he thought the proposal was “fascinating” throughout a White Home assembly with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Throughout their assembly, Trump turned to Zelenskyy, asking for his ideas on the tunnel. The Ukrainian chief responded that he was “not pleased with this concept”.
Dmitriev, who can also be the CEO of the Russian Direct Funding Fund, has additionally advised that the US may be part of Russia and China in joint “hydrocarbon initiatives within the Arctic”, referring to expanded drilling for oil.
“Actually, Russia is eyeing the chance of joint Russia-China-US initiatives, together with within the Arctic area, particularly within the vitality sector,” Dmitriev mentioned final month, based on Russia’s TASS information company.
Russia and different Arctic nations are reportedly planning to broaden mining operations within the area as local weather change sees polar ice receding.
Dmitriev additionally proposed that Musk’s The Boring Firm may develop into concerned within the venture, tagging Musk in a submit on X, a social media platform owned by the South Africa-born billionaire.
“Let’s construct a future collectively,” Dmitriev wrote to Musk on X, in a submit additionally touting the venture as “symbolising unity”.
“Think about connecting the US and Russia, the Americas and the Afro-Eurasia with the Putin-Trump Tunnel,” Dmitriev wrote.
Musk had not publicly responded to Dmitriev’s submit as of Friday night, US time.
Dmitriev’s posts selling the tunnel venture got here as Trump and Putin held a two-hour call on Thursday evening prematurely of a planned meeting in Hungary’s capital, Budapest, which Trump says will happen inside two weeks.
The Kremlin has additionally confirmed the assembly.
The Bering Strait, 82km (51 miles) vast at its narrowest level, separates Russia’s huge and sparsely populated Chukotka area from Alaska.
Proposals to hyperlink them have been round for not less than 150 years.
The small Diomede Islands, one Russian and one belonging to the US, sit in the course of the strait, solely 4km (2.4 miles) aside.
Dmitriev mentioned a plan for a “Kennedy-Khrushchev World Peace Bridge” over the strait had been floated through the Chilly Warfare.
He posted a sketch from that period of the route it might need taken, with a graphic exhibiting the route the brand new tunnel may take.
“The time has come to do extra and join the continents for the primary time in human historical past,” Dmitriev mentioned.
From the Soviet JFK docs launched by @RepLuna: Kennedy–Khrushchev World Peace Bridge “may and ought to be constructed between Alaska and Russia without delay.”
With trendy @boringcompany expertise this will develop into a Putin-Trump tunnel connecting the Eurasia and Americas for < $8 billion pic.twitter.com/c84VK75rh5
— Kirill Dmitriev (@kadmitriev) October 16, 2025
