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Ever wonder how Russian President Vladimir Putin sleeps at night?

Not very well, the Kremlin leader was overheard telling Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko.

Putin arrived in Minsk on Wednesday to meet Lukashenko, and as the two sat down for a joint press conference, their microphones were switched on, capturing their small talk, Newsweek reported

“Everything alright,” Lukashenko asks in a video that’s been posted to YouTube.

“I’m alright. I don’t sleep much,” Putin confesses. “The day before yesterday I slept four hours. Last night—five hours. I go to bed at three and I wake up at eight.”

“That’s bad,” his Belarusian counterpart replies as reporters start snapping photos.

Putin didn’t elaborate on why he’s having trouble getting some good shut eye, but he’s extolled the benefits of sleep in the past.

Last year, he told a boy from Nalchik, Russia, that sleep makes a “healthy president.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Moscow this week, attending a ballet at the famed Bolshoi Theatre with Putin on Tuesday.

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