Steven Seagal, the action star turned Vladimir Putin confidant, delivered a speech at the Kremlin on Thursday after Russian President Vladimir Putin gifted the actor with the award of the Order of Friendship, honoring him for his role as the Kremlin's special diplomatic representative to the U.S.
Reading from a prepared text, Seagal stoically delivered the speech, encouraging those in attendance to "come together and fight for truth and justice" against Nazi propaganda.
Almost mechanically, Seagal began reciting a list of the Kremlin's wild claims about Ukraine, including "human trafficking, organ trafficking, narco-trafficking, and child sex trafficking"-just about all the trafficking-"bio-chemical warfare labs, fascism, and nazism," according to The Daily Beast.
"And these are the things that we still tried to make them our brothers," the former action star said.
"This war that we are currently embroiled in was started and financed by the West and has come to involve the entire world in the fight against good and evil."
Seagal, 72, was personally granted a Russian passport by Putin himself in 2016.
In 2018, he was appointed a special envoy to "facilitate relations between Russia and the United States in the humanitarian field, including cooperation in culture, arts, public, and youth exchanges."
His accomplishments remain unclear.
At Putin's swearing-in ceremony for his fifth term earlier this month, Seagal told reporters,
"He's the greatest world leader; he's the greatest."
After Putin personally pins on his ‘Russian Order of Friendship’ medal today, actor Steven Seagal reads a list of Kremlin propaganda about Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/Ov10D0bbsU
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 30, 2024
