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Putin’s Foreign Minister Trolls Ukraine with USSR Sweatshirt upon arriving in Alaska for summit
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2:56Now PlayingRussia’s foreign minister arrived in Alaska for Friday’s high-stakes US summit wearing a Soviet Union sweatshirt — an apparent jab reminding the world of the Kremlin’s ultimate goal to reassemble the Communist state.
Sergei Lavrov was seen wearing a gray sweatshirt emblazoned with “CCCP” — the Russian letters for USSR — that was partly covered by a black puffer vest as he entered the site of the talks in Anchorage.
Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in February 2022 as part of his personal ambition to re-form the Soviet Union, the collapse of which he has called “the greatest geopolitical disaster of the century.”
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