'We were monitoring Putin...and it looks like indeed, he did leave Moscow,' self-exiled former Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky told Newsweek.
Self-exiled former oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once Russia's richest man before he fell foul of Putin, said he was monitoring the movements of the Russian president during Prigozhin's short-lived rebellion on June 24.
From left, Vladimir Putin in Moscow on June 29, 2023, and Russian opposition activist Mikhail Khodorkovsky on February 18, 2023 in Munich, Germany. Khodorkovsky has said Putin fled Moscow on the day of the Wagner mutiny.Former Russian oil executive Khodorkovsky, 60, headed the energy company Yukos before he spent a decade in prison in Russia for what critics called politically motivated charges.
Agentstvo, an independent Russian-language investigative media outlet, reported in January that a Pantsir-S1 air defense system wasafter drone attacks inside Russian territory. It described the home as"a place of personal leisure for Putin, his relatives and friends."
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