Is it true that Putin's hand was a bruise during a performance on Valdai?

After the speech of Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the Valdai discussion club, network users began to actively discuss the broadcasting frame in which the president’s brush seems partially blue. We decided to understand this story.

October 27, 2022 Vladimir Putin Accepted Participation in the final plenary session of the XIX meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club. After broadcasting the event, many publications appeared on the Web in which users suggested that on the arm 70-year-old The President of Russia was visible a bruise. Usually, a frame with a close-up of Putin’s right hand is attached to such records, on which you can notice that it seemed to have acquired a dark blue shade.

According to Ukrainian publications "Gordon" And "Apostrophe", In social networks, a frame with a dark spot on the hand of the Russian politician was compared with photographs of Elizabeth II, shot shortly before the queen's death. Also Can find assumptionsthat this bruise is a trace of a dropper catheter. Such posts are found on Twitter (Examples here, here, here, here And here), "VKontakte"And Telegram. For example, in the channel "Ukraine 24/7" laid out Frame with Putin’s hand and asked: “What about my grandfather with a claw?” (212,000 views). Also part users He thinksthat the viral screenshot of the record of the performance was changed in the graphic editor. On the website of the Ukrainian television channel "Channel 24" too told About Putin’s blue hand, but added: “Of course, we can assume that this is so playing light. However, we cannot be sure of this. ”

To begin with, the pictures of the 96-year-old Elizabeth II, with whom the frame with Putin is compared, is genuine. September 6, 2022 Queen Spent The audience with Liz tracks, during which she officially took office as a new Prime Minister of Great Britain. Contrary to tradition, reception Passed Not in the Buckingham Palace, but in a residence in the Scottish Balmoral. On Photos The skin on the queen's hands really looked darkened, and two days later, September 8, Elizabeth II I died.

Earlier media Quoted Doctor Deb Cohen-Jones, who She saidthat the dark blue shade of the Queen’s hands is one of the signs of the disease of the peripheral vessels. “This is a violation of blood circulation, which causes narrowing, blockage or spasm of blood vessels outside the heart and brain,” she explained. A similar problem with a touch of the Queen's hands Noticed back in 2021, then among possible reasons specialists Selected Reino's disease and cyanosis. The same diseases on some sites Explain And the color of Putin's arm.

As for the images of the limb of the President of the Russian Federation, they were not processed, so this is not the result of Photoshop. We looked carefully Record Broadcasts in the public of the Vesti television program and calculated that from the angle at which the screenshot of the hands was taken, the president was shown at least nine times during his 42-minute speech from the rostrum. In general, Putin’s right brush, as it is captured on viral frames, could be observed about one minute, so it is not surprising that many viewers noticed this moment and were able to take screenshots. Below we attach a picture of the screen we have taken, where you can actually notice an unnatural dark blue tint of the right hand.

However, the dark spot on the president’s hand is not a bruise, but, most likely, only a shadow or a glare from a surface (it is important to note that the total color scheme of the event, as can be seen shots And videoincludes many blue shades). We attach several screenshots below: the first was made before Putin’s performance, the next two during his speech, and the last one after it. None of the four images on the brush can be seen by the alleged bruise or darkening.

In the absence of bluish (or darkening) on ​​your hand, you can see by looking at dozens of frames from the forum, placed On the website of the American photo agency Getty Images. As for the veins performing on the brushes, they can be seen in photo and video materials published on the official website of the President of Russia and in 2017, and c 2019, and c 2021 year.

Publications about the dark blue hand fit well in narrative About Putin's health problems, on which more than once has recently Spended investigations (for example, the publication "Project"*) and They wrote In the media. Since most often in such publications they mainly refer to anonymous sources, it is almost impossible to check them by open data by open data. However, we can say for sure that the so-called bruise on the president’s brush is just a visual effect resulting from some external factor, such as a shadow or glare.

*The Ministry of Justice included the "Media Project" in scroll foreign and international non -governmental organizations whose activities are recognized as undesirable in the territory of the Russian Federation.

Photo on the cover: screenshot “Checked” / video of the TV channel ”Tsargrad"(Vk.com)

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