Putin's awkward wristwatch mishap fuels 'body double' conspiracy claims

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Putin's awkward wristwatch mishap fuels 'body double' conspiracy claims
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'Putin forgot he wears his watch on his right hand. Or that isn't Putin? What's going on?' a Ukrainian official said.

uses body doubles resurfaced on Tuesday after a video appeared to show the Russian president forgetting on which wrist he wears his watch.

"Putin forgot he wears his watch on his right hand. Or that isn't Putin? What's going on?" Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine's minister of internal affairs, wrote on X, formerly. He shared the video that shows Putin during a meeting of the Council for Strategic Development and National Projects on Tuesday. The Russian leader appears to be attempting to look at the time on his watch, but confuses his left hand with his right.

Putin has been quoted by state media as saying that he wears his watches on his right hand, not because he is left-handed, but out of habit. The Russian president said in 2008 that he likes dangling his watch on his wrist, and the"crown" of the watch, if worn on his left hand, rubs."It hurts," Putin added.

Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting of the Council for Strategic Development and National Projects via video link in Moscow, on August 22, 2023. The unsubstantiated conspiracy theory that the Russian leader uses body doubles resurfaced on Tuesday after a video appeared to show him forgetting which wrist he wears his watch on.

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