Wladimir Putin were paranoid, hypochondriac and would live fully separated from reality in a kind of bubble in which only the information transmitted to him by his closest collaborators filter. Word of a person who has been very close to him for years.
Gleb Karakulov, Putin’s former bodyguard
Gleb Karakulov it was a engineer of the communication team fso (Bundesschutzdienst), the government agency in Russia that deals with it Shares by top personalities.
In 13 years of service, Karakulov traveled with Vladimir Putin for 180 missions and was allowed to watch it very closely.
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However, in February 2022, after the invasion of Ukraine, the engineer decided to change his life:
“One erupted in February 2022 criminal war and I could no longer compromise with myself. I couldn’t remain in the service of this President. I consider it one war criminal“.
Karakulov then left Russia to flee to Turkey, and now the Kremlin has branded him as such deserter.
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The man told the editors of ‘Dossier Center‘, a dissident-funded site Mikhail Khodorkovskyformerly the richest man in Russia, now considered a “foreign agent” or traitor by the Kremlin.
Putin It is a unapproachable workaholic, says Karakulov: “The President’s work schedule is extremely tight and he is always surrounded by security guards, by many people. So, no, it would be problematic to approach him and ask him, for example, ‘How are you?’”
“Putin works a lot; You can see him on his business trips. Not Go to bed until 2 or 3 in the morningMoscow time”.
The one drawn by Karakulov is a portrait of a man living in a bubble: “All the information he receives, he receives only from people close to him. That means he lives in a way information bubble“.
How is Putin?
Over the past year there has been a flood of news about Vladimir Putin’s health.
Some have speculated that the Russian President may have Parkinson’s disease. Someone else claimed that Putin had cancer. And Ukrainian President Zelenskyy has even speculated that Putin may have been dead for a long time.
Karakulov dismantles these fantasies, which British intelligence has already defined as “wishful thinking,” illusory thinking.
“If Putin has health problems – says Karakulov – they must be due to his age. Well it probably does. But it’s nothing too serious I guess. Enjoy one better health than many others her age“.
Putin and Covid-19
The Russian President would have a deep fear of the corona virus: “He continued to have fear of covid – says Karakulov says – and forces anyone who spends time with him in a room to undergo quarantine. He fears for his life in a pathological way“.
And again: “Yes, it is isolated from the world with barriers of all kinds, even after the end of the Covid restrictions. Be relation to reality And distorted“.
The Russian President would have identical offices in different residences. This would allow him, in messages to the nation, to fool the public into believing that he was always at work in the Kremlin.
“I personally saw Putin in his office in Sochi while the television announced that he was receiving someone at his apartment in Novo Ogarevo on the outskirts of Moscow,” says Karakulov.
War criminal Putin
Karakulov doesn’t mince his words, for him Putin is a criminal: “I think Putin is a war criminal and it would have been an even worse crime than defecting to stay at work as if nothing had happened.”
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