While President Vladimir Putin made a surprise visit to the occupied port city of Mariupol in Donbass, ‘band suspicion’ is growing in waves as the photos and videos released through this visit are compared.
On the 20th (local time), Russian local media and foreign media such as the New York Post reported President Putin’s surprise visit to Mariupol on the same day. done.
In particular, in the video of the visit released by the Kremlin Palace and the state-run RIA news agency, a woman turned to President Putin and said, “It’s not real. When she was caught shouting, “It’s all for show,” she fueled these suspicions.
Since then, Putin’s aides have been caught looking at each other, and the woman’s appearance has disappeared.
Suspicions of President Putin’s treason have been constantly raised, not just this time.
Anton Gerashchenko, an aide to Ukraine’s Interior Minister, raised suspicions on Twitter when he posted three photos of three people believed to be Putin, taken on different dates, with the caption, “Which one do you think is real?”
Looking at the photo, you can see that Putin’s chin protrudes forward and has a round shape in the photo taken in Moscow, Russia on the 21st of last month.
President Putin’s chin taken in Sevastopol, Crimea on the 18th looks close to the chin, and the chin taken in Mariupol on the 19th is protruding, but angular and pointed.
As the tweet spread through SNS, etc., it only grew in waves around the world that President Putin used a double.
Kirilo Budanov, head of Ukraine’s military intelligence bureau, also fueled suspicion by claiming that there were three Putin doubles last year and that he had undergone plastic surgery for them.
Foreign media reported that Putin’s suspicion of treason continues to be raised, but nothing has been proven.
Some analysts say that President Putin even staged this scene in order to threaten Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Previously, on the 19th, President Putin made a surprise visit to Mariupol, a port city in Donbass, which was successfully merged with Russia. It was interpreted that President Putin directly showed a message of ‘repulsion’ by taking such a step one day after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant as a war criminal.
This is the first time President Putin has made such an unannounced visit to an area occupied by Ukraine since the invasion of Ukraine in February last year.
He first drove the car to Sevastopol, a port city on the Crimean Peninsula, then took a helicopter to the Donetsk region, drove the car directly from Mariupol, Donbass, and toured several places in the city.
Source: Donga
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