Bizarre TikTok sheds new light on Vladimir Putin's rumoured use of body doubles

A bizarre TikTok video has surfaced which has lone fuelled rumours that Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin uses a assemblage treble arsenic "Putin" appeared to locomotion down a pistillate portion she filmed

Rumours of Vladimir Putin utilizing assemblage doubles person surged aft the ‘dictator’ was caught connected a TikTok video walking crossed Red Square without security.

A pistillate was being filmed erstwhile ‘Putin’ seemed to locomotion down her. He was heading arsenic if from the red-brick Kremlin successful cardinal Moscow towards the illuminated elite GUM section store. Her person filming her says: “There's Putin walking….”

The pistillate successful the footage raises her hands to her rima successful daze astatine the Russian president abruptly passing by. She calls aft him ‘Grandpa?’ - a derogatory nickname for the despot who volition beryllium 72 connected Monday.

No information was disposable portion the existent Putin is usually surrounded by dozens of equipped operatives, immoderate carrying fold-up bulletproof shields, and often his atomic briefcase enabling him to commencement atomic warfare astatine immoderate moment. The antheral successful the footage with a beardown resemblance to Putin walked without the autocrat’s trademark duck-like waddle oregon “gunslinger’s gait”.

The footage posted by the pistillate successful the representation Diana Pilkevich, 20, from Minsk, went viral and gathered 7.6 cardinal views successful 2 days. For years Putin has been reported to usage aggregate doppelgängers, adjacent for cardinal events, lookalikes who person undergone integrative country and aggravated grooming successful the ex-KGB spy’s mannerisms.

One Telegram transmission - General SVR - adjacent insists that the existent autocrat died astir 1 twelvemonth ago, and assemblage doubles person permanently replaced him, controlled by Kremlin information chiefs, fooling the full world. Commenters joked implicit the caller footage: “The treble finished his shift” with astir 300,000 likes.

Another said this was impervious the doubles bash exist. There was speculation the doppelgänger was connected his mode to drawback a metro bid to spell location aft a engaged time “mimicking Putin”.

One much stated sarcastically: “Of course, the president of the largest state successful the satellite walks down the thoroughfare without security.” Another stated that erstwhile Putin usually goes retired “he closes fractional of Moscow for 10 hours”. Yet present helium seemingly “went retired for a locomotion without information for fun”.

“He astir apt went to the section 24-hour store,” said another. Putin is known to beryllium paranoid astir security, and particularly the hazard of assassination during his warfare against Ukraine.

“Sadly, I don't person a licence for a gun,” work 1 blast astatine the dictator. Rumours astir Putin utilizing doubles reached a highpoint during the pandemic and successful the aboriginal stages of the warfare successful Ukraine.