Russian President Vladimir Putin allegedly made a “brutal comment” to an American reporter before his peace meeting with Donald Trump this week, according to sources.
After a special trip from Moscow to Alaska, the 72-year-old met with his American counterpart in the presence of the press on Friday (August 15) and began secret negotiations.
Unfortunately, journalists started chasing him, wanting to know if he had put an end to the massacre in Ukraine.
“Mr. Putin, will you agree to a ceasefire?” the media representative asked. “Will you commit to not killing any more civilians? President Putin, why should President Trump trust your word now?”
In the Sky News footage, Putin can be seen covering his mouth with his hands and speaking directly to the angry crowd. The lip reader claims to know exactly what he said.
Speaking to The Sun, Nicola Hickling, who can lip-read, said Putin told the reporter: “You’re uneducated.”
She even saw Trump gesture to his assistant, saying he felt “uncomfortable” at the press conference.
However, Sky News correspondent Martha Kelner claims that Putin said, “Let’s go, let’s go,” to encourage the press to leave.
When the two leaders were finally invited to their private conference room, they were advised to make significant progress in pursuing peace between Russia and Ukraine.
Before the talks began, Zelensky expressed his hopes for their outcome on his X profile.
“The most important thing is that this meeting opens a real path to a just peace and substantive discussion between the leaders in a trilateral format – Ukraine, the United States and the Russian side,” he wrote.
“It’s time to end the war, and Russia must take the necessary steps. We are counting on America. As always, we are ready to work as productively as possible.”
The documents allegedly included a schedule, phone numbers of several government employees and a lunch menu, with photos from NPR indicating the document was “prepared by the Office of the Chief of Protocol.”
The document reveals that Trump planned to give Putin a statue of a bald eagle. It also included a menu for Friday’s dinner (which was ultimately canceled).
It would consist of salad, beef tenderloin, Olympic halibut and crème brûlée for dessert.
Jon Michaels, a professor of national security at the University of California, Los Angeles, called the missing pages a serious oversight. He told NPR: “I think it’s another example of administrative sloppiness and incompetence.” You just don’t leave documents in printers. It’s that simple.
As expected, the White House quickly denied that it was a security breach.
Tommy Pigott, deputy spokesman for the State Department, told The Independent: “Instead of reporting on the historic steps toward peace achieved at Friday’s summit, NPR is trying to create a story from the dinner menu. Absurd.”