US EditionAlaskan Man Gifted New Motorcycle by Putin During Trump Summit
Putin gave a new Ural motorcycle to Mark Warren, who faced parts shortages due to sanctions, highlighting Western sanctions' impact on Americans, Russian state TV reported.
- During the recent meeting in Anchorage between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Anchorage resident Mark Warren was presented with a new Ural motorcycle as a gift from Putin.
- The gift followed reporters from Russian state television who met Warren by chance ahead of the summit and was personally handed to him by Russian embassy employee Andrei Ledenev.
- Warren described the new bike as 'night and day' better than his old Soviet-era Ural, which he struggled to maintain due to scarce parts from the Ukraine-located manufacturing plant.
- Ural motorcycles now assemble all models in Petropavl, Kazakhstan, with headquarters in Washington, and the company ceased Russian production and condemned the 2022 Ukraine invasion.
- The gift symbolized Moscow's goodwill amid sanctions tensions and underscored Alaska’s historical ties to Russia during the Putin-Trump summit in the city.
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Putin gives Alaska man new motorcycle after he complained about cost to repair his Soviet-era bike because of war
Mark Warren, of Anchorage, said he was handed the keys to the spanking new Ural motorbike in a motel parking lot by a Russian embassy employee last week after Vladimir Putin's high-stakes meeting with President Trump.
An Anchorage man has reportedly received a motorcycle with a sidecar as a personal gift from Russian President Vladimir Putin.
This citizen of Alaska had been interviewed by journalists of the Russian state chain, upstream of the summit of August 15th. He had shown them his two-wheeler, originally Russian brand, which he could not repair because of difficult parts to obtain since the war in Ukraine.
Putin gifts American man motorcycle during Alaska Summit. Here’s why
Mark Warren of Alaska’s Anchorage region in the United States was stunned when Russian officials contacted him and handed over a new Ural motorcycle, describing it as a ‘personal gift’ from Russian President Vladimir Putin. He was told the bike had been flown in from Russia on the same jet as Putin
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The AgeMark whinged about the war, so Putin gave him a new motorbike
A man from Anchorage, Alaska who complained about sanctions impacting his ability to repair his Ural sidecar during Trump’s Russia-Ukraine war summit, was gifted a brand-new Ural by Russian President Vladimir Putin
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