Bunkers, bodyguards, food tasters – Russia’s president allegedly protects himself from attacks in a spectacular way. According to reports, he is not in Moscow during the Ukraine war.
Munich/Moscow – Russia’s ruler Vladimir Putin is spreading fear and terror through the Ukraine war. Europe-wide. But according to reports, the despot from Moscow himself lives in constant fear. This suggests that the 69-year-old is said to be using the most spectacular measures to protect himself from attacks.
Vladimir Putin: Russia’s president protects himself from attacks – bunker in the Urals?
Since the escalation of the Russia-Ukraine conflict due to the invasion of Russian troops in the neighboring country to the west, there have been reports that the autocratic head of state is not staying in the Kremlin at all, but in a bunker complex in the distant Ural Mountains. Around 1400 kilometers east of Moscow. This was reported by the Ukrainian secret service.
In addition to remote hiding places, however, a number of other precautions should be part of the protective measures. Merkur.de summarizes reports and rumors about it:
Vladimir Putin: How Russia’s rulers supposedly protect themselves from attacks
- Whereabouts and “hiding places”: In the person of Riho Terras, a former general of the Estonian military claimed on Twitter that he had information from a Ukrainian officer that Putin was said to be in hiding in the Urals during the Ukraine war. That cannot be checked. Also the image reported on such a hiding place, citing information from the Ukrainian secret service and from German government circles. The Moscow political scientist Valery Solowei, on the other hand, claimed in an interview with the English tabloid Daily Mailthat at least Putin’s family is staying in a high-tech bunker in the Altai Mountains, located in the border region between Siberia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China.
- taster: The daily newspaper AUSTRIA refers to Gilles Bragard, the founder of the “Club des Chefs des Chefs”. This is a gathering of top chefs who cook or have cooked for heads of state and monarchs. According to Bragard, Putin has every dish tasted by a food taster. For classification: The chef Jérôme Rigaud is also said to be (was) a member of the cooking organization. And French company La Champagne de Sophie Claeys, in a post on its website, called Rigaud the chef of the Russian Kremlin.
- Doppelganger: Just the Russian state news portal RussiaBeyond wrote out loud oe24.at by a “presidential body double”. Putin himself said in 2020 that he was offered a double – but rejected it every time.
- Special Bodyguards: Vladimir Putin is said to have close ties to his bodyguards, the internationally renowned weekly reported The Economist in June 2019. The Russian president appointed four officers from his bodyguard as regional governors in gratitude for their services since 2016, the report said. Another former bodyguard has been appointed head of the National Guard. how the economist further writes, the bodyguards should be equipped with special briefcases, which they could use as protective shields. Furthermore, their weapons are said to be partially loaded with armor-piercing bullets.
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