Yesterday #Putin held two meetings with representatives of the security and military bloc leadership. During a meeting with the military, the president heard reports on the situation on the front and suggested... 1/4
discussing the prospects for both a Ukrainian counter-offensive and actions of the #RussianArmy. #Putin was reassured that the Ukrainian counter-offensive had so far resulted in nothing but losses on the part of the enemy. 2/4
Speaking of their own prospects, the leaders of the military bloc promised the president to "liberate" #Donbas by October 7 this year, just in time for #Putin's birthday, giving him such an expensive gift. These promises cheered the president up a little, although he... 3/4
had been gloomy before. However, his cheerfulness did not last long. He asked how the military leadership planned to achieve such results, and the president heard something vague and uncertain and immediately got discouraged again. 4/4
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A few days ago, there were some rather momentous events on which we took our time shedding light, allowing the consequences to materialise. A few days ago, #Russian President Vladimir Putin had a major disagreement with... 1/9
the Secretary of the Russian Security Council, Nikolay #Patrushev. Thus, during another online meeting with the leadership of the security bloc, #Putin shared his plans to involve Chechen fighters of Ramzan #Kadyrov to fight saboteurs in the #Belgorod oblast. 2/9
This decision was sharply opposed by Nikolai #Patrushev. He said that the situation could be brought under control without involving the "Kadyrovites" and that the increasing influence of #Kadyrov's representatives in the #Belgorod region would bring imbalance into... 3/9
During a meeting with representatives of the security bloc, #Putin listened to the reports and learned that Prigozhin refused to carry out his order and announced it publicly. 1/5
Security Council Secretary Nikolay #Patrushev said after the report to the president that such behaviour by #Prigozhin was causing confusion in the minds of some #Russian elites. The example of the defiant and popularly supported Prigozhin openly going against... 2/5
the president's decisions is causing many actors in the system to question the strength of the system's core. #Patrushev told the president that #Putin's methods of influencing #Prigozhin were ineffective and it was worth moving on to tougher decisions. 3/5
#Putin's double Held the Meeting with "War Correspondents"
Although #Russian President Vladimir Putin did have a desire to attend a meeting with "war correspondents" in person, he was dissuaded by people close to him and by his attending physicians. 1/9
A few days before the event, the president and his assistant drew up a detailed outline of practically all the questions that the "war correspondents" were going to ask. The president's double studied the presidential prescriptions set out in the outline with... 2/9
genuine enthusiasm, as people privy to it say. In the evening before the event, the double took an "exam" recorded on camera by the Federal Protection Officer official, who asked questions on the topics outlined in the lecture book randomly. 3/9
#Putin Ordered to Prepare a Provocation on #Russian Nuclear Power Plant
Yesterday Putin received reports and held a meeting via video call with representatives of the leadership of the military and the security bloc. After the reports and interaction with... 1/8
the military, the president went on to have a private meeting with representatives of the security bloc leadership, ordering to disconnect the military from the meeting. In such a format, the president raised the issue of the provocation of a man-made disaster at... 2/8
one of the #Russian nuclear power plants. Things on the front are not going well, and neither the military nor the president is confident that the Ukrainian counter-offensive will fail and that all the "new territories" will be retained. 3/8
The double of #Russian President Vladimir Putin took part in several official events yesterday. The understudy presented medals of Hero of Labour and State Prizes of the Russian Federation. Participating in such events does not... 1/9
cause the president's double any difficulties at all. He has been getting into his role easily and playing it perfectly lately. Even dedicated people from #Putin's inner circle are confused by the almost identical manner of moving and speaking, rather than by... 2/9
the striking resemblance. And yet, in their outward resemblance, there are some discrepancies. It's the makeup that's faulty, the plastic surgery that's not. Thus yesterday, during a visit of the president's double to the Central Clinical Military Hospital... 3/9
The man who resembles #Russian President Vladimir Putin took part in several official events on Friday 9 June. This was probably the most responsible and difficult day for him as a presidential double. 1/5
#Putin was not in Sochi and could not replace the double in case of an emergency. The double coped with the task, and even Alexander Lukashenko, who knows Putin very well, for some time thought that he was really talking to the president of #Russia. 2/5
It was a kind of exam for the double, and now he will be involved in important events a lot more. Direct line with the President of #Russia was postponed from the beginning of June to December this year because of the president's poor state of health, while... 3/5