Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Russia's Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Petro Poroshenko Shake Hands Before The Minsk Talks

Russian President Vladimir Putin (2nd L) shakes hands with his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko, as European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton (L) and Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev (C) stand nearby, in Minsk August 26, 2014. Credit: Reuters/Sergei Bondarenko/Kazakh Presidential Office/Pool

Putin, Poroshenko Shake Hands At Minsk Talks -- Reuters

(Reuters) - Russia's Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Petro Poroshenko greeted each other with a handshake at the start of talks in Belarus on Tuesday on the Ukraine crisis, the first time the two presidents have met since June.

Tensions between the two countries were heightened before the meeting when Ukraine released video of Russian soldiers it has captured in eastern Ukraine, where its army has been fighting pro-Russian separatist rebels since April.

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My Comment: Everything about this picture .... the body language, Putin's smile, the people around them.... everything strikes me as weird and wrong. The video is below.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

WHY DO YOU THINK ITS WEIRD COULD YOU ELABRATE ON IT PLZ

War News Updates Editor said...

They are smiling but they are not happy to see each other. When they shook hands they kept their distance. Poroshenko offered his hand first. Their eye contact lasted only a second, and after that they did not look at each other. All the other leaders were looking at them .... and not at each other. You can feel the tension in the air .... and yes .... I would have loved to have been there to witness all of that.