Sounds like Russian State media picked him because he was under the impression a factory was in Ukraine. Or more likely he agreed to play a role in some scripted state media propaganda. Russian television likes to interview every day people who are pro-invasion in order to make the war seem popular, or Putin seem right:

The unexpected gift by the Russian leader came after reporters with Russian state television Channel 1 met Warren by chance on the streets of Anchorage ahead of the summit.

The reporters stopped to admire Warren’s bike, which is manufactured by Ural, whose original factory was founded in 1941 in what was then Soviet Russia.

Warren told a reporter, Valentin Bogdanov, that he struggled to obtain spare parts for the bike, including a new starter, because the manufacturing plant is “located in Ukraine.”

“So for you, if they resolve this conflict here in Alaska, I mean Putin and Trump, it will be good?” Bogdanov asks Warren.

“Yes, it will be good,” the Alaskan replies. Ural, which is headquartered in Washington State, says that all of its motorcycles are assembled in Kazakhstan.

The company pulled all its production out of Russia after the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine.

Ural did not immediately reply to a request for comment outside working hours in the U.S.