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Putin says Trump is right to sue BBC over speech edit

By Thomson Reuters Dec 19, 2025 | 6:06 AM

MOSCOW, Dec 19 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin told ‍his annual end-of-year press conference on Friday that U.S. President Donald Trump ‌was right to ‌sue the BBC over edited clips of his speech.

Trump sued Britain’s publicly ​owned broadcaster for at ‍least $10 billion ​in damages over ​edited clips of ‍a speech that made it appear he directed supporters to storm the ‍U.S. Capitol. The BBC has apologised to Trump ‍and ‍has said ​it will defend ​the ⁠case.

(Reporting by ‌Guy Faulconbridge, Vladimir Soldatkin and Anton Kolodyazhnyy, Writing by Anastasia Teterevleva, Editing by Timothy ⁠Heritage)