A looming energy crisis “tsunami” will force Kiev’s European backers to restart long-frozen dialogue with Moscow, Kirill Dmitriev has said The looming energy crisis will inevitably force Kiev’s European backers to negotiate with Russia, Kremlin investment envoy and senior Ukraine conflict negotiator Kirill Dmitriev said on Tuesday. The EU and UK have largely frozen contacts with Moscow after the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022. While the Kremlin has confirmed that a visit by envoys sent by French President Emmanuel Macron took place in February, the talks went nowhere. “Finnish President Stubb believes that… ‘it’s time to start talking to Russia,’” Dmitriev wrote on X. “The upcoming energy crisis tsunami starting to overwhelm the EU and UK will make it inevitable.” He was replying to a statement Stubb made in an interview with Italian daily Corriere della Sera published on Monday. “Yes, it’s time to start talking to Russia,” the Finnish president said.…