In just a four-second video, Ukrainian Interior Ministry adviser Anton Herashchenko debunks long-running rumors about Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
“What is happening to Putin’s cheeks? (This is a new video),” writes Gerashchenko on X/Twitter over a short video clip of Putin.
During the video, several people speculate whether it could be a doppelganger seen in the video.
For a long time there have been rumors that the Russian president is ill and that he has a doppelganger. Despite Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov coming down hard on the rumors earlier this year, people don’t seem to have stopped speculating.
At the time, Peskov simultaneously dismissed the rumors that Putin is struggling with his health and called the speculation “an absurd lie”.
In the video Herashchenko shared, it is pointed out that the president’s cheeks look rounder than in another cut photo from just a few months ago.
However, several claim that it must be due to injections in the cheeks.
On several occasions, doppelgänger rumors have flared up. However, it reached a peak this spring when videos were supposed to show Putin driving around the occupied city of Mariupol in Ukraine.
Several – among them military blogger and FSB officer, Igor Girkin – believed that the pictures of Putin looked fake.
The video purports to show Vladimir Putin driving around the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, which Russia claims to have annexed. Video: Anton Gerashenko. view more
– When I see an alleged Putin in a crowd, I know right away that it is a doppelganger, Girkin, who is now imprisoned, said in March.
Ukraine’s intelligence services have also claimed the Russian president uses doppelgangers.
2023-11-10 02:00:19
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