Russian President Vladimir Putin reportedly made a “brutal comment” to an American reporter ahead of his peace meeting with Donald Trump this week.
After making a special trip from Moscow to Alaska, the 72-year-old met with his American counterpart in front of the press on Friday (August 15) before beginning secret negotiations.
Unfortunately, journalists began to pursue 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?”
Sky News footage of the moment captured Putin covering his mouth with his hands and speaking directly to the angry crowd – and a lip reader claims to know exactly what he said.
In an interview with The Sun, lip reader Nicola Hickling claimed that Putin told the reporter, “You’re uneducated.”
She even saw Trump gesture toward his aide, saying he felt “uncomfortable” at the press conference.
Sky News correspondent Martha Kelner, however, claimed that Putin said, “Let’s go, let’s go,” to encourage the press to leave.
When the two world leaders were finally ushered into their private conference room, they were advised to make significant progress toward peace between Russia and Ukraine.
Before the talks began, Zelensky used his X profile to express his hopes for their outcome.
“It is crucial 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 Russia,” he wrote.
“It is 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, several phone numbers of government employees, and a lunch menu, with photos from NPR indicating that the document was “prepared by the Office of the Chief of Protocol.”
The document shows that Trump planned to give Putin a statue of a bald eagle. It also included a lunch menu for Friday (which was ultimately canceled). It was supposed to consist of a salad, beef tenderloin, Olympia halibut, and crème brûlée for dessert.
Jon Michaels, a lecturer in national security at the University of California, Los Angeles, called the missing pages a serious oversight. He told NPR, “I think this is yet another example of the administration’s sloppiness and incompetence. You just don’t leave documents on printers. It’s that simple.”
As expected, the White House quickly denied that this constituted a security breach.
Tommy Pigott, principal 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 make history out of the dinner menu. Absurd.”