Putin receives the Trump prize sent for the CIA son

President Vladimir Putin has replaced a special envoy by American president Donald Trump with a prize to be transmitted to a senior CIA official whose son was killed with Russia in Ukraine.

Putin gave Lenin’s order to Steve Witkoff during her trip to Moscow this week to discuss a plan to end the Ukraine War, the BBC CBS BBC partner said.

Michael Gloss, 21, who was killed in Ukraine last year, was the son of Juliane Gallina, who is the deputy director of CIA digital innovation.

Prix reports have appeared because it was confirmed that Trump and Putin will meet in Alaska next Friday to discuss the future of the war in Ukraine.

Neither the Kremlin nor the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs publicly recognized posthumously granting the order of Lenin, a prize in the Soviet era recognizing the exceptional civil service, on Gloss.

We do not know what was done with the price. The White House, the CIA and Witkoff did not respond to requests for comments.

Gloss’ death emerged for the first time in the Russian media in April.

A CIA statement later this month said Gloss suffered from mental health problems, adding that his death was not a national security problem.

Gloss has never been a CIA employee, a person familiar with CBS told CBS.

Sources have also told CBS that the Kremlin did not seem to be aware of the family history of Gloss, which enlisted with the Russian forces in the fall of 2023.

Gloss had shared selfies on Moscow Red Square on social networks last year. His posts had expressed their support for Russia in what he called “the Ukrainian war of proxy” and rejected the media coverage of the conflict as “Western propaganda”.

A Gloss Billology published in November 2024 said it was “killed in Eastern Europe” April 4 of the same year.

The CIA declaration on her death four months ago said that Ms. Gallina and her family had suffered “an unimaginable personal tragedy”.

Gloss’s father, the veteran of the war in Iraq, Larry Gloss, told Washington Post in an interview in April that their son had fought for most of his life with mental illness.

“Our greatest fear while we were waiting for him to be repatriated was that someone there (in Moscow) would put two and two together and would discover who his mother was, and would use it as an accessory,” said Larry Gloss.