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A lipreader has revealed what she claims Volodymyr Zelensky told Benjamin Netanyahu during a tense exchange in Washington.
The Ukrainian President and the Israeli Prime Minister were filmed having a passionate chat on the funeral of Senator Lindsey Graham last night.
The world leaders were at Washington National Cathedral to honour the influential Republican, who was a significant supporter of each their countries.
Nonetheless, Nicola Hickling, an authority in lipreading, has claimed the pair weren’t seeing eye to eye.
The cameras only picked up what Zelensky was saying. Here’s what Nicola thinks he told Netanyahu.
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The Ukrainian leader may be seen saying: ‘We’ve got conditions, they’ve not met them.
‘We must get them to agree.’
After Netanyahu responds, Zelensky says: ‘That’s incorrect.’
The Israeli leader continues speaking because the pair are joined by Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha and US Secretary for Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin.
Zelensky then says: ‘We wish it this fashion too. Let’s comply with disagree.’
He then nods and adds: ‘Good.’
The pair shake hands and smile at one another, before turning away to talk to other guests on the funeral.
The gathering was an eventful one as world leaders and US politicians paid tribute to Graham, who died of an “aortic dissection” – a tear in the guts’s fundamental artery.
In a single viral moment, President Donald Trump pulled out a box of Tic Tacs and offered them to JD Vance.
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The cameras also caught the US leader appearing to struggle to maintain his eyes open.
He seemed on the verge of nodding off as he sat on the front of the packed cathedral.
In his eulogy to the Republican Senator, Trump also recalled leaking Graham’s phone number.
The pair became allies but were locked in a bitter feud in the summertime of 2015, when Graham called Trump a ‘jacka**’.
Trump then read out Graham’s phone number on stage for the world’s media.
Reflecting on the moment last night, Trump said: ‘So naturally, I did something that I shouldn’t have done. I shared his personal mobile phone number with the thousands and thousands of those who happened to be watching that specific day as I made a speech.
‘And I remember the number: 202-228-0292, if anybody wants to present it a shot. His phone exploded.
‘However it was Lindsey who had the last laugh, because while I blew up his phone for sooner or later, we became great friends, and Lindsey didn’t stop calling me for the subsequent 10 years. It was tough.’
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