- A former protection officer for Vladimir Putin has claimed that Vladimir Putin is ‘pathologically afraid for his life’.
- A secret train network, identical offices in different cities, a strict personal quarantine and mounting security protocols are some of the measures believed to have been implemented by Putin to thwart any potential threat to his life.
- Putin spends most of his time living in a bunker at the Russian Embassy in Kazakhstan outfitted with a secure communications line.
- “He has shut himself off from the world, His take on reality has become distorted.” The former protection officer said.
- “All the information he receives is only from people close to him. That is, he lives in a kind of information vacuum. Our president has lost touch with the world,” he said.
Gleb Karakulov, who served as a captain in the Federal Protection Service (FSO), has claimed in an interview that Russian President Vladimir Putin is ‘pathologically afraid for his life’. A former protection officer for Russian President Vladimir Putin who defected last night has given details about the fearful lifestyle of Putin. A secret train network, identical offices in different cities, a strict personal quarantine and mounting security protocols are some of the measures believed to have been implemented by Putin to thwart any potential threat to his life, reported The Guardian.
“Our president has become a war criminal,” warned Gleb Karakulov, who had been a communications expert for Putin’s secretive elite personal security team. Detailing an ever-increasing paranoia in the daily actions of the leader, he said, “Putin fears assassination plots. He spends most of his time living in a bunker at the Russian Embassy in Kazakhstan outfitted with a secure communications line.
Gleb Karakulov said such measures were designed to mask the whereabouts of Putin, whom he described as “pathologically afraid for his life”. Putin uses a covert train for “stealth purposes” so that it cannot be tracked on any information, he said.
Karakulov said he has taken more than 180 trips with Putin, nearly always in a special armored train rather than a plane because of paranoia about flights getting tracked. “In all my service, I have never seen him with a mobile phone,” Karakulov was quoted by The New York Post as saying.
“All the information he receives is only from people close to him. That is, he lives in a kind of information vacuum. Our president has lost touch with the world,” he said. “He has been living in an information cocoon for the past couple of years, spending most of his time in his residences, which the media very fittingly call bunkers. He only values his own life and the lives of his family and friends,” Gleb Karakulov revealed.
“Putin is still in quarantine and requires all staff working in the same room as him to also undergo a two-week quarantine, severely limiting the number of people who have personal contact with him,” the report added. “He has shut himself off from the world,” Karakulov said. “His take on reality has become distorted.” He added that the Russian President uses identical offices in St Petersburg, Sochi and Novo-Ogaryovo.
