Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov appeared to troll Kyiv and the West by wearing a Soviet CCCP top as he arrived for the Putin-Trump meeting in Alaska, sparking fury from Ukrainians.
The jumper, purportedly emblazoned with the letters, has been seen as an inflammatory and offensive gesture towards Ukraine because CCCP is a Russian abbreviation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
Until Ukraine declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, the country endured hardship under Russian rule for 69 years, from the pogroms and political repression of the Lenin era to the Holodomor genocide of the 1930s and the covered-up Chernobyl disaster of 1986 which predated the collapse of the USSR.
A video shows the minister exiting a car outside the summit - seemingly wearing the provocative jumper beneath a gilet - as a reporter hounds him with questions.
He then brazenly conducted a press interview with the top visible, sending a chilling message to Ukraine and Russia's pro-western neighbours.
