The letter ‘CCPD’ was on the Lavrov sweater. That is the Russian abbreviation for the Soviet Union. Russian President Vladimir Putin has always had a very pronounced opinion about the former Marxist-Lenistic state. He rather called the fall of the Soviet Union “the greatest geopolitical disaster of the century.”
It seems that Lavrov has put on the sweater to provoke Ukraine and the West. “With this he wants to Jenn the Americans,” says the Ukrainian soldier Oleg T. to the Daily Mail. “It’s a middle finger as big as the Statue of Liberty. If Trump doesn’t see it, he himself has chosen to be blind.”
But where does the sweater actually come from? The original is sold by the Russian brand Selsjovet. The company says it specializes in ‘Soviet heritage’. The sweater is for sale for 10,990 rubles, converted around 120 euros. On AlieExpress, fake versions are offered for only 22 euros.
US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Putin meet around 9.30 pm Dutch time in Anchorage. According to the Kremlin, the conversation will not only be about the war in Ukraine, but also “the entire spectrum of the Russian-American relations.” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskov thinks that the gathering between the presidents can take “at least six or seven hours”.
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