Putin has called out plans to flee to Venezuela if Russia loses the war

KIEV – President Vladimir Putin have a plan to escape if Russia lost the war Ukraine which started in February. The plans were unveiled on Wednesday by a former speechwriter for the Kremlin chief, Abbas Gallyamov.

Gallyamov, who is also a political analyst, said reliable sources told him the Kremlin had been developing a contingency plan for a potential defeat in Ukraine since the spring, which would have involved Putin and the rest of his top leadership fleeing. in Venezuela.

“I don’t usually tell inside stories, but today I’ll make an exception. First, I trusted the sources too much, and second, the information was very interesting,” Gallyamov wrote on his Telegram channel, as quoted. NewsweekThursday (8/12/2022).

According to Gallyamov, the project was unofficially called “Noah’s Ark”.

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Argentina and Venezuela are believed to be the best options for Putin’s escape, but China is being considered in the early stages of the talks.

“As the name suggests [Bahtera Nuh]it’s about finding new lands where you can go if it gets very uncomfortable in your homeland,” Gallyamov wrote.

“The leader’s entourage does not exclude that he will lose the war, lose power and immediately have to flee somewhere.”

Gallyamov, who has lived in exile in Israel since 2018, said his sources told him Yury Kurilin, a vice president and chief of staff at a Russian energy company; Rosneft, is the “man on the ground” who is making all arrangements for a potential evacuation to Venezuela.

“In the summer he officially resigned from [Rosneft] and now he devotes himself entirely to ‘Noah’s Ark'”, wrote Gallyamov.

“He has US citizenship and good connections. He is a graduate of Hayward University in California [dan] worked throughout the BP structure, including in senior corporate affairs director positions.”

Searched by Newsweek found that Kurilin was still listed as Rosneft’s vice president and chief of staff on websites including the Wall Street Journal’s company profile page.

“Unfortunately, my sources are not aware of the other details, but what has been said is enough to understand: when [Rusia] saying that “everything went according to plan”, it makes sense to clarify which. It seems they have more than one plan,” Gallyamov concluded.

Rosneft and the Russian Foreign Ministry could not be reached for comment on the information disclosed by Gallyamov.

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