Russian president Vladimir Putin reportedly distributed a ‘brutal comment’ to one US reporter ahead of his peace meeting with Donald Trump this week.
After making the special trip from Moscow to Alaska, the 72-year-old sat with his US counterpart in front of the press on Friday (August 15) before initiating the secret negotiations.
Unfortunately for him, he was pursued by journalists eager to learn whether he had put an end to the carnage in Ukraine.
“Mr. Putin, will you agree to a ceasefire?” asked a female member of the media. “Will you commit to not killing any more civilians? President Putin, why should President Trump trust your word now?”
Sky News footage of this moment recorded Putin projecting his voice by putting his hands around his mouth and speaking directly to the agitated crowd – and a lip reader claims to know exactly what he said.
Speaking to The Sun, lip reader Nicola Hickling announced that Putin said ‘you are uneducated’ in the direction of the reporter.
She even observed Trump motioning to his adviser that he was ‘uncomfortable’ at the press conference.
However, Sky News correspondent Martha Kelner claimed that Putin said ‘let’s go, let’s go’ to support the press to go.
When the two world leaders were eventually ushered into their private meeting room, it’s been recommended that a lot of progress was made in the plight to bring peace between Russia and Ukraine.
Before the talks took place, Zelenskyy used his X profile to share his hopes for the outcome.
“The key thing is that this meeting should open up a real path toward a just peace and a substantive discussion between leaders in a trilateral format – Ukraine, the United States, and the Russian side,” he wrote.
“It is time to end the war, and the necessary steps must be taken by Russia. We are counting on America. We are ready, as always, to work as productively as possible.”
The papers were said to consist of a schedule, several phone numbers of government employees and a lunch menu, with photographs from NPR showing it was noted as ‘produced by the Office of the Chief of Protocol.’
The document displays Trump planned to give Putin a bald eagle statue as a gift. It also laid out the lunch menu for Friday (which ended up being cancelled).
It would have consisted of green salad, filet mignon, halibut Olympia, and crème brûlée for dessert.
Jon Michaels, a UCLA national security lecturer, described the missing pages as a huge oversight. He told NPR, “It strikes me as further evidence of the administration’s sloppiness and incompetence.” You simply don’t leave items in printers. It’s that simple.
As expected, the White House quickly denied that this constituted a security violation.
Tommy Pigott, the State Department Principal Deputy Spokesperson, told the Independent: “Instead of covering the historic steps towards peace achieved at Friday’s summit, NPR is trying to make a story out of a lunch menu. Ridiculous.”
