Ukraine news latest — Russia ‘expecting external financial support’ as Putin ‘fears for life & is living in bunkers’

VLADIMIR Putin is “staying in bunkers” to avoid assassination after becoming “pathologically afraid for his own life” according to a former protection officer of the president. In an interview with Dossier, Gleb Karakulov a Russian defect claimed Vladimir Putin spent the last few years living in an “information cocoon”. Gleb said Putin had “lost touch with the world” as the Ukraine war rages on and is 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.” It comes as the UK’s Ministry of Defence has claimed Moscow “anticipates external financial support” after Russia’s Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin claimed they are issuing some of their sovereign debt in foreign currencies. The Ministry said: “Once the development is completed, investors from other countries will be able to purchase Russia’s sovereign debt and therefore finance some of Russia’s future budget shortfalls. Such investors would be indirectly financing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.” Read our Ukraine war blog below for the latest news…