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Putin Accused of Fleeing as Drones Torch Moscow
The Daily Beast • • world
Key Points:
- Russian President Vladimir Putin has reportedly moved east beyond the Ural Mountains, avoiding Moscow amid intensified Ukrainian drone attacks on the capital, according to independent sources.
- During a recent visit to Novosibirsk, Putin allegedly used a decoy plane and imposed strict security measures, including ordering residents along his motorcade route to stay indoors.
- Ukrainian drone strikes targeted Moscow and its surroundings, killing an 83-year-old man and damaging a warehouse of Wildberries, Russia’s largest online retailer, which Kyiv accuses of supporting Russia’s military.
- The Russian Defense Ministry claimed to have shot down 822 Ukrainian drones during these attacks.
- Andrei Klepach, a former Putin appointee and chief economist at Vnesheconombank, publicly criticized Russia’s war efforts as failing economically and technologically, but was dismissed shortly after his remarks became public.
