Overview
- The Khabarovsk Krai Ministry of Industry and Trade announced that a box of red caviar was given to President Donald Trump.
- RIA Novosti reported the account on December 18, citing the ministry’s Telegram post as the source.
- The ministry said U.S. negotiator Steve Witkoff tasted the caviar at Moscow’s Savva restaurant before heading to the Kremlin and then took a full box for the president.
- The caviar was produced at the Chnyrrah fish processing plant in Nikolaevsky District, where it is salted and packaged by hand.
- The plant’s manager told RIA Novosti he learned of the handoff from a client who supplies the restaurant, and there has been no separate U.S. confirmation.