“It’s slow and he’s learning, but he said, ‘Wait, wait, wait,’ and he gave Putin the finger and it made me cry,” he said.
John Sweeney, 66, appeared on the ITV daytime show on Monday via video link from Kyiv to present a segment on the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Good Morning Britain’s Susanna Reid has been forced to apologise after a reporter made a “high offensive gesture” live on air.
He had appeared on the morning show via video call as a clip next to him showed Ukrainian war veterans who had prosthetic limbs exercising in a special fitness centre.
Sweeney then demonstrated the man making a three-finger salute before slowly turning it into the middle finger gesture.
