Steven Seagal was comfortable to push Vladimir Putin’s agenda as he acquired an award from the Russian president on Thursday.
In a ceremony on the Kremlin in Moscow, the American motion film actor was bestowed with Russia’s Order of Friendship honor for his “great contribution to the development of international cultural and humanitarian cooperation.”
In video of Seagal accepting the award circulating on X, previously Twitter, the “Under Siege” star listed an array of incendiary claims about Ukraine, the place Russia has been making an attempt to annex areas for years.
Studying an announcement straight from his cellphone, the martial artist stated that earlier than Russia’s early 2022 incursion, “Ukraine was known for human trafficking, organ trafficking, narco trafficking, child sex trafficking, biochemical warfare labs, fascism and nazism.”
“And these are the things that we still tried to make them our brothers,” he went on. “These are all poisons that can affect the entire world and not just us.”
Claiming worldwide tensions may spark “World War 3” elsewhere in his speech, Seagal additionally denounced America and different Western nations for his or her help of Ukraine.
“This war that we are currently embroiled in was started and financed by the West, and has come to involve the entire world in a fight against good and evil,” the actor stated.
“All religions, all nations and all people should unite instead of being controlled and fooled by the monster of fake press,” he went on.
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Seagal has been chummy with Putin for a while now.
In 2016, the actor was personally given a Russian passport from the president, a choice that led to him being banned from coming into Ukraine for 5 years.
Two years later, he was appointed as “a special representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry in charge of Russian and American Humanitarian ties.”
Demonstrating his unwavering help for the Russian chief, Seagal attended the inauguration ceremony for Putin’s fifth consecutive time period in workplace earlier this month in Moscow.
