Putin awarded a Trump Messenger Award for CIA’s son’s son

President Vladimir Putin presented the special envoy of US President Donald Trump with an award for handing over a senior CIA official, whose son was killed by fighting Russia in Ukraine.

Putin gave Lenin’s order to Steve Vikoff during his trip to Moscow this week to discuss a plan to end war in Ukraine, sources familiar with the question said, the US partner of the BBC told.

The 21 -year -old Michael Glans, who was killed in Ukraine last year, was the son of Julian Galina, who is the Deputy Director of the CIA for digital innovation.

The award reports appeared as it was confirmed that Trump and Putin would meet in Alaska next Friday to discuss the future of the war in Ukraine.

Neither the Kremlin nor the Russian Foreign Ministry publicly acknowledged posthumously by awarding the Lenin Order, a Soviet era award recognizing exclusive civil service to GLOSS.

It is not clear what was done with the award. The White House, the CIA and Vitcof did not respond to requests for comment.

Gloss’s death first appeared in Russian media reports in April.

A statement from the CIA later this month said that the gloss suffers from mental health problems, adding that his death was not a matter of national security.

Gloss has never been an CIA employee, a person familiar with the question told, told CBS.

Sources also told CBS that the Kremlin did not initially seem to be aware of the family origin of GLOSS, which enrolled with the Russian forces in the fall of 2023.

Gloss had shared the selfies on Red Square of Moscow in social media last year. His posts expressed support for Russia in what he called “Ukraine Proxy War” and rejected the media coverage of the conflict as “Western propaganda”.

A gloss necrologist, published in November 2024, said he was “killed in Eastern Europe” on April 4 of the same year.

The CIA statement of his death four months ago is said that Da Galina and her family have suffered an “unimaginable personal tragedy.”

Gloss’s father, the Iraqi war veteran, Larry Glans, told The Washington Post in an interview this April that their son had fought the biggest part of his life with mental illness.

“Our biggest fear as we waited for him to be repatriated, was that someone (in Moscow) would bring two and two together and find out who his mother was, and use it as a support,” said Larry Gladns.