{"id":284198,"date":"2025-04-17T12:45:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T12:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/17\/muscles-from-brussels-jean-claude-van-damme-sends-big-kiss-to-putin-with-ambassadorial-job-request\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T12:45:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T12:45:06","slug":"muscles-from-brussels-jean-claude-van-damme-sends-big-kiss-to-putin-with-ambassadorial-job-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/17\/muscles-from-brussels-jean-claude-van-damme-sends-big-kiss-to-putin-with-ambassadorial-job-request\/","title":{"rendered":"Muscles from Brussels Jean-Claude Van Damme sends ‘big kiss’ to Putin with ambassadorial job request"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jean-Claude Van Damme has told Vladimir Putin he wants to come to Russia as an “ambassador of peace”.<\/p>\n

In a bizarre video posted on Telegram by a pro-Russian journalist from Ukraine<\/strong><\/a>, the Hollywood<\/strong><\/a> action hero, 64, said he would be “honoured” to take on such a role.<\/p>\n

Addressing the Kremlin leader directly, he said: “We want to come to Russia. We’ll try to do this the way you want to do this – to be an ambassador of peace.”<\/p>\n

It would not be the first time the man nicknamed “The Muscles from Brussels” has visited Russia<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 2010, he enjoyed ringside seats alongside Putin<\/strong><\/a> at a mixed martial arts event in Sochi.<\/p>\n

The Belgian-born former bodybuilder shares a love of fighting with the Russian president, who is himself a judo black belt, and they are said to have known each other for years.<\/p>\n

Tiptoeing around the topic of Russia’s war in Ukraine and its ongoing stand-off with the West, Van Damme promised to talk “only about peace, sport and happiness” and not politics, before signing off the video with a “big kiss for Putin”.<\/p>\n

Most celebrities have turned their back on Vladimir Putin since he launched his invasion in February 2022 but a handful continue to defend him. Of those, American actor Steven Seagal is the most high profile.<\/p>\n

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The Under Siege star, who holds a Russian passport and is a frequent visitor to the country, acts as Moscow’s special representative for Russian-US humanitarian ties.<\/p>\n

But when we caught up with him at Putin’s latest presidential inauguration last year, he refused to say why he supports the Kremlin leader…<\/p>\n

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