The Clip Of Putin Gasping For Air Has Some Interesting Details

• 9.03.2026, 12:29

The Kremlin press office forgot to delete the metadata.

The video for March 8 with Putin coughing and gasping was recorded three hours before the Kremlin mistakenly published it. For the first time in a year and a half, they forgot to remove metadata from the video

On the night of March 8, the Kremlin published a video congratulating Putin on International Women's Day. However, the video was unedited and within minutes Putin is coughing on it. "We Can Explain" investigated its metadata.

The video was published on the Kremlin's Telegram channel and lasted about six minutes. After the first take, Putin began coughing and complaining of a sore throat, after which he asked for the congratulatory message to be rewritten.

Besides the Kremlin, the unedited video was published in several pro-government channels (e.g., "You listened to Beacon"). But later it was replaced by a shortened version of the congratulation.

As "MO" pointed out, the Kremlin press service also forgot to remove the metadata from the technical version of the file (they have been doing this for the last year and a half). The technical information shows that the video of Putin coughing was recorded three hours before it was published.

Putin regularly coughs, but during the live line in 2024 he attributed it to the operation of air conditioners. "The air conditioners are making a noise," the Kremlin master said, coughing slightly while answering a question from KP propagandist Alexander Gamov.