A video is going viral on Russian social media that claims Vladimir Putin is cheating his people by using multiple body doubles for trips he doesn’t want to take.
Seizing on speculation that the Kremlin president’s only trip so far to newly invaded territory in Mariupol was made by a doppelgänger, he asks, “Who rules Russia?”
It’s unclear who made the footage, but it appears to be intended to reach Russians who rely on super-loyal state media for their news.
The footage begs the question: “Who visited Mariupol?”
It says: ‘Specialists long ago noted the differences between the body doubles of the Russian president.
The video promotes the theory that Putin is using doppelgängers for trips he doesn’t want to take.
Kiev official Anton Gerashchenko posted three images of Putin’s chin and questioned whether they belonged to the same man. He sneered: ‘What’s with your chin, Putin?’
‘A ledge on Putin’s earlobe is constantly changing.
Like a small mole on her face.
‘One of the Putins has straight wrinkles on his face, the other has small, interrupted (wrinkles).
“This is impossible even if I had botox injections.”
Putin is widely believed to have had regular plastic surgeries as he aged since he became interim president on the last day of 1999.
Rumors abound that Putin’s “stand-ins”, who have undergone plastic surgery to look like him, are increasingly fanning out as his health worsens amid rumors of cancer and early-stage Parkinson’s.
“Evidently, the weaker double was sent to Mariupol,” the video reads in Russian.
They forgot to put the jaw on it.
The video says: ‘Specialists long ago noticed the differences between the body doubles of the Russian president’
Putin is widely believed to have had regular plastic surgery as he aged since he became interim president on the last day of 1999.
Vladimir Putin’s first visit to Mariupol, occupied Ukraine, late on March 18, 2023
The footage begs the question: “Who visited Mariupol?”
The adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine also mocked Putin’s trip to Mariupol. He said: “It seems that lately the make-up artists of him (ie for the bunker man’s recent trips to occupied Crimea and Mariupol) had to work with a rather low quality copy, not even a double but the copy of him “.
It is questioned if this ‘double’ has false teeth.
He concludes by asking: ‘After all, how many Putins do we have?
‘Who rules Russia?’
Ukraine earlier mocked Putin for allegedly “sending a lookalike to war-torn Mariupol” on a high-security visit.
Kiev official Anton Gerashchenko posted three images of Putin’s chin and questioned whether they belonged to the same man.
He sneered: ‘What’s with your chin, Putin?’
The adviser to the Minister of the Interior published: “It seems that lately your make-up artists (that is, for the recent trips of the bunker man to the occupied Crimea and Mariupol) had to work with a rather low-quality copy, not even a double, but your copy.
‘I wonder which one of them was real?’
One image showed Putin, 70, a month ago addressing the Federal Assembly in Moscow.
Another was Putin’s reported visit to the Crimean naval port of Sevastopol on March 18.
And the third was of images released the next day that evidently showed the dictator in war-bombed Mariupol.
“Evidently, the weaker double was sent to Mariupol,” the video reads in Russian.
Ukraine also mocked Putin for allegedly “sending a look-alike to war-torn Mariupol” on a high-security visit.
The video states: “One of the Putins has straight wrinkles on his face, the other has small, interrupted (wrinkles).”
Rumors abound that Putin’s ‘stand-ins’, who have undergone plastic surgery to look like him, are increasingly fanning out as his health worsens amid rumors of cancer and early-stage Parkinson’s.
The first image showed his firm and precise chin.
But the image in Sevastopol, taken from Ukraine in 2014, caused a drooping chin, while Mariupol’s chin appears firmer but less firm than in the Moscow image.
Two former associates of Putin have also suggested that he use doubles.
A former KGB spy who studied with him at spy school, Sergei Zhirnov, said he had until now believed claims that Putin used doppelgängers were “conspiracy theories” but changed his mind.
He compared a formal speech delivered in Moscow by an isolated, ‘skinny’ and coughing ex-spy for Putin on February 21 with an appearance at a pro-war rally the next day in the city.
In this case, “a totally different Putin appears” with “a wider face as if it had swollen in 24 hours,” he told Ukrainian television.
“He has a totally different shape of the eye sockets, a totally different head, totally different wrinkles, a different voice.”
And a former Putin speechwriter, Abbas Gallyamov, has warned that the existence of multiple lookalikes poses a risk if Russia launches a coup over its failed war policies.
“The presence of a double can interfere: you think you have arrested Putin, but it turns out that you have detained his deputy,” he said.
You can arrest a deputy, show him on TV signing his ‘resignation’ and announce the transfer of power to the Prime Minister or some National Salvation Committee.
But it would be necessary for the ‘original Putin to prove that it is him, and not a double’.
He stated: “In short, if the doppelganger exists, then the people responsible for its movements are potentially very important participants in the process and should not be forgotten by the organizers of the conspiracy.”
