Putin video makes the network laugh: "When nature calls"

Created: 2022-12-23 04:58

By: Fabian Mueller

Alexander Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin in Minsk.

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During Vladimir Putin's visit to Minsk, a brief retrospective moment provided amusement.

Lukashenko and Putin said they were satisfied after the meeting.

Minsk - On Monday, Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Minsk to talk, among other things, about Belarus' role in the Ukraine war.

The two controversial politicians agreed to continue military cooperation and closer economic cooperation.

Meanwhile, a video of the meeting sparked amusement on social media.

You can see Lukashenko and Putin entering the Palace of the Republic in Minsk, but then not knowing where to go in the building.

Putin looks questioningly at Lukashenko, who is much taller, and gestures with his fingers as if to ask: "To the left or to the right?" But even Lukashenko himself doesn't seem to know exactly where the two politicians have to go.

Video of Lukashenko-Putin meeting makes people laugh online: "When nature calls"

Finally, Putin decides to turn right and starts marching, Lukashenko looks after him, calls after him, Putin nods again and turns in the opposite direction.

What happened next: open.

Because the video stops here.

But the internet wouldn't be the internet if some funny scenarios weren't quickly pieced together.

While some saw the video as just a hint that the two politicians didn't agree on where to go, or that a small (somewhat bitchy) argument broke out, others believe that either Lukashenko or Putin still wanted to go to the toilet .

A Twitter user described the whole thing with a humorous undertone: "When nature calls, you obey."

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The meeting itself, however, also raised some concerns in the West.

The White House is monitoring the actions of the two politicians "very closely," said a spokeswoman.

Analysts from the Institute for the Study of War, or ISW for short, meanwhile concluded that Lukashenko had let Putin run into the Minsk meeting.

The interests of the Russian president are sometimes fundamentally different from those of Lukashenko. Among other things, the Belarusian president uses a certain rhetoric to avoid being drawn directly into the Ukraine war.

Despite the meeting, military involvement in the war is still unlikely.

(fmu)