Body doubles stand in for the 70-year-old Russian president at certain events, a Ukrainian intelligence official says.
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a March 18, 2022, concert marking the anniversary of the 2014 annexation of Crimea. Ukrainian officials say that Putin uses body doubles for public appearances, which the Kremlin denies."Putin uses doubles," said Yusov."This is a fact that is based both on operative intelligence and on the assessments of physiognomists and many other specialists.
"His visits to the occupied south are a total fake, one organized rather poorly and hastily. There was a considerable difference both in 'Putin's' behavior and his looks," Yusov said. Keir Giles, a Russia expert and a senior consulting fellow at the London-based Chatham House think tank, toldto the occupied Ukrainian port city of Mariupol because Russia needed"to sell its people a story of success in the war."
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