Detox. No, Volodymyr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin did not meet on a TV set in the 2000s

Former actor turned president, Volodymyr Zelensky has put on his warlord costume to stand up to the Russian army since the invasion of Ukraine on February 24. On the Internet, videos of his past as an actor have resurfaced since the start of the conflict, sometimes via hostile Internet users, to show his former antics or his dancing skills.

On Twitter, a video attracted particular attentionsince it shows what appears to be the first meeting between Volodymyr Zelensky and his current enemy Vladimir Putin in the early 2000s.

In the images, we see a very young Zelensky on stage, making a joke in front of an audience in which the Russian president is. The budding comedian laughs, in Russian, at the happiness that Vladimir Putin could know if he could count 9 times his population… A way of ironizing his wish to exercise the presidency for life, knowing that the Population census is done once every ten years in Russia. The camera films the president who sketches a smile.

This historic encounter is believed to have taken place on the game show, The Club of Cheerful and Intelligent People, very popular in Russia. The images have been shared thousands of times on Twitter, sometimes even by Western journalists. However, it never took place, since it is a montage of two sequences from the same program: that of Zelensky dates from 2002, while that of Putin was shot in 2006, i.e. four years later. late. So Putin was not smiling at Zelensky’s joke. Who still happens to be president.

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