Paranoid Vladimir Putin stays “in his bunker” for fear of assassination attempts, according to a Russian defector who described the despot as a “war criminal”.
Gleb Karakulov, 35, is a captain in the Federal Guard Service, known as the FGS or FSO, and worked as a protection officer for the Russian president.
Karakulov added that the Russian despot is also “mortally afraid” of Covid, and is now isolating for the fourth year.
According to the Dossier Center, an independent Russian news outlet, whom Karakulov spoke to, the former security guard is the highest ranking defector so far from Putin’s immediate security circle.
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