Analysts question Putin’s motionless hands during missile speech
On Thursday, Nov. 21, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin delivered a video address claiming that Russia had struck Dnipro with a supposedly “state-of-the-art medium-range missile” called the Oreshnik. Notably, during the nearly eight-minute speech, Putin barely moved.
Julian Röpcke, an open-source intelligence analyst for Bild, pointed out that Putin's hands remained motionless throughout the entire 7-minute, 45-second video. According to Röpcke, Putin's hands appeared “glued to the table,” raising suspicions of video manipulation.
Röpcke speculated that Putin’s immobile hands may have been artificially edited into the video to mask potential signs of illness or nervousness. “In past addresses, Putin frequently used hand gestures, which were completely absent here,” he noted.
Interestingly, just a day later, on Friday, Nov. 22, footage from a meeting with top defense officials showed Putin flipping through pages and occasionally gesturing, further fueling questions about the video editing in his earlier speech.
“These visuals portray a man who threatens the world but can’t seem to move his own hands,” Röpcke commented.
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