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Putin gives Trump envoy award for CIA official's son killed fighting in Ukraine
BBC News ^ | 8/9/2025 | Staff

Posted on 08/09/2025 9:26:33 AM PDT by marcusmaximus

President Vladimir Putin has presented US President Donald Trump's special envoy with an award to pass on to a senior CIA official whose son was killed fighting with Russia in Ukraine.

Putin gave the Order of Lenin to Steve Witkoff during his trip to Moscow this week to discuss a plan to end the Ukraine war, sources familiar with the matter told the BBC's US partner CBS.

Michael Gloss, 21, who was killed in Ukraine last year, was the son of Juliane Gallina, who is the CIA's deputy director for digital innovation.

Reports of the award emerged as it was confirmed that Trump and Putin will meet in Alaska next Friday to discuss the future of the war in Ukraine.

Neither the Kremlin nor Russian foreign ministry has publicly acknowledged posthumously bestowing the Order of Lenin, a Soviet-era award recognising outstanding civilian service, on Gloss.

It is unclear what was done with the award. The White House, the CIA and Witkoff did not respond to requests for comment. Gloss' death first emerged in Russian media reports in April.

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To: marcusmaximus

Is that punk’s MOTHER a COMMUNIST also???


41 posted on 08/09/2025 10:22:14 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: piasa

My guess is that the MOM is NOT PRO USA also!! She works for the TOTALLY CORRUPT CIA! INVESTIGATE HER!!


42 posted on 08/09/2025 10:23:30 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: marcusmaximus

Looks like the boy enjoyed Russia and “went Native!”

I have spent two days in St. Petersburg and liked the city’s sights but to go native? Nyet!


43 posted on 08/09/2025 10:23:54 AM PDT by BatGuano (Quantus Tremor Est futurus.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

LOL!!! St. PANCAKE!!


44 posted on 08/09/2025 10:24:03 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: marcusmaximus

It just keeps getting weirder and weirder


45 posted on 08/09/2025 10:24:12 AM PDT by rdcbn1 (..when poets buy guns, tourist season is over................Walter R. Mead.)
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To: gunnut

How does she keep her JOB at the CIA????


46 posted on 08/09/2025 10:24:44 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: marcusmaximus

They could have just not acknowledged his death like all the British troops who have died in Ukraine.


47 posted on 08/09/2025 10:24:57 AM PDT by McGruff
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To: mairdie

GET OUT! He’s a COLD BLOODED KILLER!! GO BACK TO DU!


48 posted on 08/09/2025 10:25:41 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: ComputerGuy

This is on the same level as surprising Zelensky in the Oval Office with cameras running...”You have no cards...”


49 posted on 08/09/2025 10:26:23 AM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: Ann Archy

Ah, logic and the ability to tolerate other points of view. Impressive.


50 posted on 08/09/2025 10:28:49 AM PDT by mairdie
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To: Ann Archy

Of course an incel. They always are.


51 posted on 08/09/2025 10:28:55 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: DCPatriot

The Euroweenies can huff and puff all they want, but if Trump pulls us out, it’s over for the Ukes.


52 posted on 08/09/2025 10:30:36 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: Ann Archy

A few Americans fought for Hitler.
Some still promote Nazi and Stalinist ideals.

Some people just make very bad choices.


53 posted on 08/09/2025 10:40:38 AM PDT by hoosierham (Freedom isnt free)
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To: gunnut
Sorry, but how does she keep her clearance?

That”s going to look great on her Permanent Record SF-86.”

Great question. Even before his death, the fact that her son went to Russia and joined their armed forces should have been a huge Red Flag.

The Agency called it “a private family matter, and not a national security concern.”

Seriously?!

Obviously there are different rules for the Protected Classes and us mere mortals

54 posted on 08/09/2025 10:50:46 AM PDT by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net (We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous worl)
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To: marcusmaximus

The CIA needs a good purging.


55 posted on 08/09/2025 11:10:12 AM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: marcusmaximus

Post of the day.

Just AI Chuck the Schmuck’s mug in there.


56 posted on 08/09/2025 11:12:45 AM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: mairdie

A foolish man lost his life in a war he believed in. He threw his life away. He earned this medal.


57 posted on 08/09/2025 11:20:48 AM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, MAGA)
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To: cpdiii

“Here’s your sign!”


58 posted on 08/09/2025 11:21:37 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Leaning Right

Imagine being a young American and dying in a proxy war with Russia that Biden’s auto-pen decided to engage in.


59 posted on 08/09/2025 11:47:13 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: piasa

And this loving mom, who, supposedly, is employed by the CIA and expected to advance US interests, brought up her dear son as a hard-nosed commie. How times changed since Rosenberg’s couple execution...


60 posted on 08/09/2025 1:06:21 PM PDT by exinnj
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