Bizarre moment Putin appears to forget which wrist he wears his watch on sparks new claims he uses a body double
- Putin looks perplexed not to find watch when he glances at left arm
This is the bizarre moment Vladimir Putin seems to forget which wrist he wears his watch on, sparking new claims he uses a body double.
Footage shows the Russian President glancing at his left arm during a meeting of the Russian Council for Strategic Development and National Projects.
The dictator looks perplexed not to find the watch there, as he has always worn his timepieces on his right wrist.
Later in the meeting, the Kremlin leader is seen taking off his watch – believed to be a £12,500 Russian-made Raketa – and fidgets with it in his hands.
Perhaps the 70-year-old is preoccupied with the war or becoming forgetful.
Footage shows the Russian President glancing at his left arm during a meeting of the Russian Council for Strategic Development and National Projects. The dictator looks perplexed not to find the watch there, as he has always worn his timepieces on his right wrist
Later in the meeting, the Kremlin leader is seen taking off his watch – believed to be a £12,500 Russian-made Raketa – and fidgets with it in his hands
But Telegram channel General SVR claims that a sickly Putin now permanently uses a doppelgänger – a lookalike actor – for public appearances such as this – and suggests the body double simply forgot about the dictator habitually wearing his watch on the ‘wrong wrist’.
‘Having read out a voluminous speech…the understudy frankly got bored,’ said the channel.
It claims he sought to ‘create the appearance of active work, diligently wielding a pen, writing down some nonsense on his papers’, as well as doodling ‘squiggles’, while ‘not forgetting to cough and grunt imitating the president’.
‘But at about 55 minutes, the understudy had an embarrassment,’ it added.
‘The double completely forgot that Putin wears a watch on his right hand, out of habit raised his left hand to check the time.
‘Not finding a watch there, [he] embarrassedly lowered it.’
The Kremlin’s own clip of this has edited out this blunder, says the channel.
Putin glancing at his left wrist only to find he is not wearing a watch. Telegram channel General SVR claims that a sickly Putin now permanently uses a doppelgänger
Putin then scratches his ear apparently in an effort to disguise his confusion. The watch can be seen on his right wrist
The Putin understudy then removed the watch and began to put it on his left wrist before closing the meeting, according to the channel, which has long claimed the dictator is terminally ill.
‘The real Putin would NEVER try to look at the time on the hand where he does not wear a watch and would not be surprised at the absence of a watch on his left hand, since he always wears them on his right hand,’ the channel stated.
‘And, of course, he would not attempt to remove the watch from the right, and move it to the left.
‘The president has been wearing a watch on his right hand for many years.
‘And his double has always been worn on his left, and only when portraying the president wears a watch on his right.’
The channel calls Putin ‘the most famous illusionist in the world’.
It says: ‘No-one has ever had such tricks with doubles.’
Political analyst Dr Valery Solovey, a Putin-watching former professor at Moscow’s prestigious Institute of International Relations, claimed today that Putin had not been seen in person since a session on August 7 with his former KGB crony Sergei Zhemezov, now CEO of Rostec
Putin with a watch on his right wrist. Dr Solovey said Putin was too ill to fight the presidential election due in Russia in March 2024
Putin looking down at a watch on his right wrist. Solovey also claimed Western leaders were well aware of his ailing health
Later in the Russian Council for Strategic Development and National Projects meeting Putin is seen taking off his watch – believed to be a £12,500 Russian-made Raketa – and fidgets with it in his hands (Stock Image)
Political analyst Dr Valery Solovey, a Putin-watching former professor at Moscow’s prestigious Institute of International Relations, a training school for spies and diplomats, claimed today that the Russian President had not been seen in person since a session on August 7 with his former KGB crony Sergei Zhemezov, now CEO of Rostec.
Putin was too ill to fight the presidential election due in Russia in March 2024, he said.
He added: ‘He can hardly get out of bed, with difficulty getting dressed.’
He claimed Western leaders were well aware of his ailing health.
He said: ‘President Putin… simply will not be able to participate in the elections… will not be able to, physically.
‘President Putin cannot put his own trousers on without external assistance, let alone participate in elections.
‘And if he puts them on without external help, he then needs to rest afterwards.
‘He is in such terrible physical shape – it is getting worse.
‘It is getting worse literally day by day…’
The prospects were bleak, he said.
‘In all public appearances the president is now replaced by a doppelgänger, a so-called double,’ he said.
There were sometimes ‘comic errors’, he claimed, as with the watch.
‘Western governments know perfectly well that President Putin is replaced by double…
‘It is known by leaders of all more or less large countries across the world but everyone turns a blind eye.
‘Why?
‘After all, these are [the] affairs of these strange Russians, let them do their thing, and fool their own people…’
Putin refused to fly to South Africa this week for a summit of the BRICS countries.
He is due soon to be in Turkey, but it appears Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will now visit Russia instead.
Solovey says the real Putin is too ill to travel abroad while Erdogan has warned him not to send his double to Ankara.
‘Erdogan persistently asked Putin not to send a double for the meeting with him,’ he said.
‘And because Putin himself cannot go to Turkey, simply cannot, Erdogan is ready – out of respect to the gravely ill, dying person – to visit Russia.’
The Russian Orthodox patriarch Kirill – a close Putin ally – last month addressed the dictator wrongly as ‘much-esteemed Vladimir Vasilyevich’, before correcting himself to name him correctly Vladimir Vladimirovich.
Solovey has claimed Vasilyevich is the patronymic of the doppelgänger.
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