Leaked blueprints have revealed a bunker hidden deep underneath Vladimir Putin’s sprawling 190,000-square-foot £1billion mansion overlooking the Black Sea. They reveal an underground complex consisting of two separate blast-proof tunnels.
Michael C Kimmage, a former US State Department official and Cold War expert, told Insider: ‘Putin has a lot of anxiety about being the not-entirely-legitimate leader of Russia.
The plans, which were uncovered by jailed Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, show the tunnels measure approximately 40 and 60 meters long, respectively, and six metres wide - creating more than 6,000 sq ft of potential living spaceThey dubbed one the ‘tasting room’ amid reports it contains full living quarters where Putin and his cronies could take in the views while remaining safe.‘Here you can enjoy a glass of wine...
Mr Kimmage told Insider the location of the bunker – some 1,000 miles away from Moscow – suggests Putin is not merely intending on constructing a plush getaway, but a bolthole.
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