16-05-2025
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Putin is 'scared of being assassinated' over his failing war
Vladimir Putin could be a "dead man walking" as he faces assassination because of his disastrous war on Ukraine, experts claim.
The ageing and paranoid despot has reportedly bolstered up his security teams and is often afraid to leave his Kremlin palace due to potential killers looking for him.
Former commander of the UK's Joint Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Regiment, Col Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, told the Mirror: 'There are analysts, people who know better than I, who believe Putin is now a dead man walking, a spent force whose war in Ukraine will cause his end.
'He is incredibly paranoid, as we see with his increased security and I am very reliably informed by people who would know that he has at least two dopplegangers or lookalikes.
"He has been acting like a worried Czar and the Bolsheviks are gathering at the gates because internally things are looking really terrible. Russians cannot even buy a loaf of bread.'
As Bruce Jones, one of the UK's leading analysts in Russian intelligence and the military added: 'Things never end democratically in Russia and the situation is bad for Putin.
"He has had people killed for years and some in his military have already been dealt with in such a way - he knows the way this goes for a leader in Moscow who is not making good decisions.
"So he is probably right to be paranoid.'
