RUSSIAN tyrant Vladimir Putin gave an Alaskan native a model new £16,000 bike whereas visiting the US for his high-stakes summit with Donald Trump.
Mark Warren, 66, was given the bike after footage of him complaining he could not repair his Soviet-era motorbike went viral on Russian media.
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The retired hearth inspector, who lives in Anchorage, the place the US and Russian leaders met last Friday, rode off with a model new Ural Gear Up sidecar.
Manufacturing agency Ural, a motors firm based in 1941 in Western Siberia when it was beneath Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union, now operates in Kazakhstan.
Warren complained he was unable to acquire the proper elements to repair the motorbike due to supply-and-demand points and sanctions on Russia.
State-sponsored Russian media noticed Warren working errands on the bike one week earlier than the Trump and Putin summit.
He stated: “It went viral, it went loopy, and I do not know why, as a result of Im actually only a super-duper regular man.
“They simply interviewed some outdated man on a Ural, and for some motive they assume its cool.”
On August 13, two days earlier than the Trump-Putin summit to debate the conflict in Ukraine, Warren obtained a name from a Russian journalist.
They advised him: “They’ve determined to offer you a motorbike.”
Warren stated he was additionally despatched a doc noting the present was organized by the Russian Embassy within the States.
The Alaska man thought it was a rip-off – however after Trump and Putin departed Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson following their three-hour summit, he acquired one other name concerning the bike.
Warren was advised his new £16,000 bike was on the similar base the world leaders had met at.
He was instructed to go to an Anchorage lodge for the handoff.
After arriving alongside his spouse, he met six Russian males who offered him with the mind-boggling present.
“I dropped my jaw,” he stated.
“I went, ‘You have to be joking me’.”
He stated the boys solely requested to interview and film him.
Two reporters and somebody from the group acquired on the bike with him whereas he drove across the automotive park to indicate it off.
The fortunate punter had reservations concerning the Ural being a malicious Russian rip-off.
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However he accepted the present, which in keeping with its paperwork was manufactured on August 12.
He stated: “The plain factor right here is that it rolled off the showroom flooring and slid right into a jet inside in all probability 24 hours.”
And he advised the Every day Mail: “I am dumbfounded. I assume I ought to in all probability write Putin a thanks letter or one thing.
“I have never. I have been so busy it hasn’t actually sunk in but.”
He added: “It is tremendous cool, you understand? I imply, it is simply such a novel bike.”
It comes as Putin continues to wage his bloody conflict on Ukraine.
The despot unleashed a contemporary breakthrough assault simply hours earlier than his summit with Trump.
And simply hours after Trump’s summit with European allies, Russia blitzed Ukraine over Monday evening with 270 drones and missiles.
The brutal assaults focused power and transport infrastructure.
Simply earlier than Zelesnky and his European counterparts have been set to fulfill Trump on Monday, one other vicious assault killed 14 individuals and injured dozens in Ukraine.
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