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On vacation for more than three years: Putin's father works in Ukraine as a researcher - media

To spread: the father of one of the key negotiators in Ukraine in Ukraine Kirill Dmitriev was decorated with a chief researcher at the Institute of Cell Biology and Genetic Engineering. He has been on vacation since April 2022. Oleksandr Dmitriev, the father of the General Director of the Russian Foundation for Direct Investments and one of the negotiations on the war in Ukraine Kirill Dmitriev, works at the Institute of Cell Biology and Genetic Engineering of the NAS of Ukraine.

This was reported by the Observer. Oleksandr Dmitriev is drawn up at 0. 75% of the rate by the chief researcher of the laboratory of immunity of plants of the department of biophysics and radiobiology. But from the beginning of a full -scale Russian invasion of the academician in Kiev. The institute noted that since April 25, 2022, he has been on his own expense on the parties' agreement. He continues his vacation every 90 days and actually keeps his workplace in the institution. Dmitriev-Sr.

studied the consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, he has a Chernobyl certificate of the 2nd category. It should be noted that the second category was awarded to those who worked in the exclusion zone in 1986-1987, evacuated and residents of the compulsory resettlement zones to decide on their evacuation. Oleksandr Dmitriev and the Institute of Cell Biology did not comment on this information at the time of news.

In February 2025, TSN reported that Kirill Dmitriev grew up in a house in the Pechersk district of Kiev and neighbors still remember him. "I remember him since childhood. He was like this, how to say . . . When everyone played football, he taught English, played tennis. Then he went somewhere in America. He was not from the world of this," - said one of the residents of the house.

Kirill Dmitriev had a Ukrainian passport and in the house in Pechersk he was registered with his family: father Alexander, mother Tamara and sister Natalia. Neighbors say that before the war in Ukraine they all left. Now twice a year Dmitriev-Sr. is coming to the house, the journalists found out. We will remind, in Washington declared Russia's refusal of any format of negotiations on termination of war in Ukraine.