‘Paranoid’ about Covid? Vladimir Putin mocked for distance from viewers | World News

As Russian president Vladimir Putin celebrated a nationwide vacation with a patriotic speech, his distance from the viewers resulted in a considerable amount of feedback on social media.

"A tiny man, afraid of his individuals (word the space between him and the viewers), committing monumental crimes," Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine's minister of inside affairs, wrote on Twitter.

The Russian chief seemed to be many toes away from the viewers on the Russia Day awards ceremony within the Kremlin. Vladimir Putin speech didn't handle advances made by Ukraine in its lately launched counteroffensive, however he known as on Russians to let their emotions "unite our society much more strongly" in an effort to give help for troopers.

"Test the space Putin has between himself and the viewers," Markus Hankins, writer of Sweden's Hela Hisingen information web site tweeted, including, "Paranoid a lot?"

The explanation for the space might be the Russian president's reported concern of catching Covid-19 as for the previous few years, Vladimir Putin has steadily been pictured assembly with world leaders on the Kremlin whereas seated at reverse ends of a protracted desk. Earlier, a former Kremlin guard mentioned in an interview with the investigative web site File Middle that Vladimir Putin is "a self-isolating president."

The previous Federal Guard Service (FSO) guard Gleb Karakulov detailed how Kremlin workers “have to look at a strict quarantine for 2 weeks earlier than any occasion, even these lasting 15 to twenty minutes. There's a pool of staff who've been cleared—who underwent this two-week quarantine. They're [considered] 'clear' and might work in the identical room as Putin.”

Different customers speculated that maybe Vladimir Putin was not on the Russia Day ceremony Monday and as a substitute his physique double was.

"The space might be additionally there to assist conceal the very fact it is a double. I doubt the actual Putin has been in any public setting in fairly some time," one consumer tweeted. Andriy Yusov, a spokesperson for Ukraine's army intelligence company, advised the information web site Ukrainska Pravda final week that Putin makes use of decoys at official occasions.

“Putin makes use of doubles. It is a truth that's primarily based each on operative intelligence and on the assessments of physiognomists and lots of different specialists,” he mentioned.