Putin keeps BRICS speech secret after Trump gets spooked by 'Troika' handshake in China | Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin attended the extraordinary virtual BRICS summit on September 8, but the Kremlin withheld his full speech, fueling speculation in the West amid escalating US tariff attacks. While the official Kremlin summary only mentioned trade and financial cooperation, China’s Xi Jinping and Brazil’s Lula da Silva openly called for BRICS to defend multilateralism and resist "hegemony."