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‘Will You Stop Killing Civilians?’: How Putin Reacted when Asked About Ukraine War
Putin responded angrily to questions about civilian casualties amid ongoing war crime allegations in Ukraine, where nearly 150 civilians were reported killed, the UN commission said.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump met in Anchorage, Alaska, on August 15, 2025, to discuss ending the Russia-Ukraine war.
- The meeting followed Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and ongoing intense conflict marked by heavy casualties and civilian deaths.
- Before the summit began, reporters asked Putin if Russia would stop killing Ukrainian civilians, to which he responded with a gesture and the phrase 'you are ignorant.'
- The UN report from May 2025 detailed that nearly 150 civilians died over a 100-kilometer area along the Dnipro River, describing the attacks as systematic and part of state policy.
- The summit aimed to achieve a rapid ceasefire, with Trump promising to call Ukrainian President Zelenskyy afterward, but success remained uncertain amid continued violence and political tensions.
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On his arrival in Alaska this Friday, alongside the U.S. President, the Kremlin leader was forcibly interrogated by a journalist about the war in Ukraine.
While the leaders were sitting next to each other, before the discussions started, a journalist asked Putin whether he would hire himself not to kill civilians, even while the press was evacuated from the hall. The Russian President seemed to have done that he did not hear the question and committed more crimes.
Putin pulls a face at journalist's question in viral Alaska summit moment
When a journalist, seated across from Putin and Trump, asked him, "Will you stop killing civilians?", the Russian President pulled a strange expression and pointed to his ears — signalling that he either hadn’t heard the question or couldn’t understand it. The moment quickly turned into a meme fest on X.
Upon their arrival at the airport, the two leaders did not answer the questions of reporters
On his arrival in Alaska this Friday, Vladimir Putin made no sense not to hear. A journalist asked the Russian president if he had "underestimated Ukraine". (International).
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