{"id":266656,"date":"2023-03-21T07:52:26","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T07:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=266656"},"modified":"2023-03-23T06:35:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T06:35:43","slug":"putin-is-accused-of-sending-a-double-to-mariupol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=266656","title":{"rendered":"Putin is accused of sending a DOUBLE to Mariupol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Putin one month ago in Moscow (left), his trip to Sevastopol on March 18 (centre) and his visit to Mariupol on March 19 (right)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Kyiv official Anton Gerashchenko accused Putin of sending a double to Mariupol<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>He posted three images of the dictator&#8217;s chin and asked which one was really his<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Will Stewart \u2013 Daily Mail.com March 20, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Vladimir <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/vladimir_putin\/index.html\"><strong>Putin<\/strong><\/a> was mocked by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/russia-ukraine-conflict\/index.html\"><strong>Ukraine<\/strong><\/a> today for allegedly sending a lookalike to war-ravaged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/mariupol\/index.html\"><strong>Mariupol<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in a high security visit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/kiev\/index.html\"><strong>Kyiv<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0official Anton Gerashchenko posted three images of Putin&#8217;s chin and questioned whether they belonged to the same man.<\/p>\n<p>He taunted: &#8216;What&#8217;s up with your chin, Putin?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The Interior Minister advisor posted: &#8216;Looks like lately his make-up artists (i.e. for the recent trips of the bunker man to the occupied Crimea and Mariupol) had to work with quite a low-quality copy, not even a double but its copy. I wonder which one of them was real?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>One picture showed Putin, 70, one month ago in an address to the Federal Assembly in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>Another was Putin&#8217;s reported visit to naval port Sevastopol in Crimea on 18 March.<\/p>\n<p>And the third was from footage released the following day evidently showing the dictator in war-blitzed Mariupol.<\/p>\n<p>The first image showed his chin tight and precise.<\/p>\n<p>But the image in Sevastopol &#8211; grabbed from Ukraine in 2014 &#8211; incited a sagging chin, while the Mariupol chin appears firmer but less so than in the Moscow picture.<\/p>\n<p>A Russian source said: &#8216;He has these moments when he looks like a babushka [grandmother] without teeth.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>There have been repeated claims that Putin uses body doubles on some trips outside Moscow, or when there are many people around.<\/p>\n<p>Today Telegram channel General SVR insisted Putin had not been to Sevastopol or Mariupol, a city invaded after a bloody battle last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The information from the Kremlin&#8217;s resources that Vladimir Putin visited Crimea and Mariupol is NOT true,&#8217; claimed the channel which says it has insider sources.<\/p>\n<p>In Crimea, a double of the president was noted with a short visit and solely for the sake of a video photo shoot.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11881229\/Putin-accused-sending-DOUBLE-Mariupol-Ukraine-say-Putins-CHIN-giveaway.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine says Putin&#8217;s CHIN is a giveaway after Russian leader&#8217;s visit to occupied territory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":266659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Behind_The_News","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266657,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266656\/revisions\/266657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/266659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}