Putin shouted 'brutal comment' at reporter after press conference with Trump erupted into chaos

Russian president Vladimir Putin allegedly dished out a 'brutal comment' to one US reporter ahead of his peace meeting with Donald Trump this week.

Having made the special trip from Moscow to Alaska, the 72-year-old sat beside his Stateside counterpart in front of the press on Friday (August 15) before beginning the secret talks.

Unfortunately for him, he was hounded by journalists keen to know whether he'd put a stop to the violence in Ukraine.

"Mr. Putin, will you agree to a ceasefire?" asked a female member of the media. "Will you commit to not killing any more civilians? President Putin, why should President Trump trust your word now?"

Sky News footage of this moment captured Putin projecting his voice by putting his hands around his mouth and speaking directly to the frantic crowd - and a lip reader claims to know exactly what he said.

Putin was visibly annoyed by some of the questions (Sky News)

Speaking to The Sun, lip reader Nicola Hickling claimed that Putin said 'you are ignorant' in the direction of the reporter.

She even caught a glimpse of Trump motioning to his aide that he was 'uncomfortable' during the press exchange.

However, Sky News correspondent Martha Kelner claimed Putin actually said 'let's go, let's go' in order to encourage press to leave.

When the two world leaders were eventually ushered into their private meeting room, it's been suggested that a lot of progress was made in the plight to bring peace between Russia and Ukraine.

The latter's president Volodymyr Zelenskyy heard all about it over the phone and he's now expected to visit the White House tomorrow (August 18).

Before the talks took place, Zelenskyy used his X profile to share his hopes for the outcome.

"The key thing is that this meeting should open up a real path toward a just peace and a substantive discussion between leaders in a trilateral format – Ukraine, the United States, and the Russian side," he wrote.

"It is time to end the war, and the necessary steps must be taken by Russia. We are counting on America. We are ready, as always, to work as productively as possible."

In the days following their rendezvous - the first face-to-face one since 2018 - it's been revealed that eight sensitive pages pertaining to the day were simply discarded at a public printer in the local Hotel Captain Cook, which sits just 20 minutes away from the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.

The Russian president allegedly called out a journalist (Andrew Harnik/Getty Image)

The papers were said to contain a schedule, several phone numbers of government employees and a lunch menu, with photographs from NPR showing it was marked as 'produced by the Office of the Chief of Protocol.'

The document shows Trump planned to give Putin a bald eagle statue as a gift. It also laid out the lunch menu for Friday (which ended up being cancelled).

It would have included green salad, fillet mignon, halibut Olympia, and crème brûlée for dessert.

Jon Michaels, a lecturer on national security at UCLA, described the pages being left behind as a major slip-up. He told NPR: "It strikes me as further evidence of the sloppiness and the incompetence of the administration. You just don't leave things in printers. It's that simple."

As you'd expect, the White House was quick to suggest that this did not constitute a security breach.

Tommy Pigott, the State Department Principal Deputy Spokesperson, told the Independent: "Instead of covering the historic steps towards peace achieved at Friday’s summit, NPR is trying to make a story out of a lunch menu. Ridiculous."