An officer from the Kremlin’s bodyguard agency, who defected last year over his opposition to the invasion of Ukraine, has provided details about Russian President Vladimir Putin to a group of London-based investigation, describing him as “paranoid” and calling him a “war criminal”, as relayed by Ouest France. The engineer who took care of the secure communication of the president but also of the prime minister, Gleb Karakulov, granted an interview, in December, to the Russian media Dossier center, financed by the opponent of the regime Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
“Our president has become a war criminal,” he said. “It’s time to end this war and stop being silent.” “Today it is very closed. He protected himself from the whole world with all sorts of barriers. His perception of reality has been distorted,” he added.
Gleb Karakulov clarified in particular that the Russian president did not use a mobile phone or the Internet. “All the information he receives comes only from people who are directly close to him. He lives in a kind of information vacuum,” he explained before giving further details about Vladimir Putin’s paranoia, including the fact that he prefers to avoid planes and travel on a special armored train. . The Russian president also reportedly ordered the construction of a bunker at the Russian Embassy in Kazakhstan, equipped with a secure communication line, in October.
He added that people who work in the same room as the Russian president still have to undergo a two-week quarantine. “There is a pool of clean employees who can work in the same room as Putin,” Gleb Karakulov said. Everyone had to be vaccinated. Some members of his entourage are forced to do PCR tests very regularly. While some observers speculate on the Russian leader’s deteriorating health, the ex-officer contradicts rumors of Putin’s possible illness. “He’s healthier than a lot of other people his age. He has annual medical visits,” he said.