I was going to say I'm assuming Putin doesn't really need a translator as he probably speaks better English than Trump, but I looked around a bit, and it seems he prefers speaking through translators, even though his proficiency is apparently good enough to sometimes be correcting his translators.

I watched his personal video submission for the World Expo in Yekaterinburg 2020 (Dubai got it), and his verbal proficiency is actually lower than I expected. Although I can't help but wonder if he makes it worse than it really is, on purpose.