Posted on 12/14/2022 10:39:33 AM PST by dennisw
A major flu outbreak has reportedly hit officials in Kremlin. The outbreak has excited Putin's hypochondriac tendencies once again, the report said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been moved to 'bunker-type premises' due to an outbreak of flu in the Kremlin, UK daily Express reported on Wednesday.
News outlet Novaya Gazeta Europe reported that many presidential officials in the Kremlin were down with flu. The report comes just two days after Putin cancelled his annual year-end press conference for the first time in a decade.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Monday said that the Russian President will not hold the annual news conference. He, however, did not give reasons behind the move. Many believe that it was due to recent setbacks in Ukraine besides the flu that has broken in the city.
UK Defence Ministry said that it will be the first time in 10 years that Putin has not held the annual event, while the usual public phone-in also did not take place this year.
It said the press conference has become a significant fixture in Putin’s calendar of public engagement and has frequently been used as an opportunity to demonstrate the supposed integrity of the Russian President.
"Although questions are almost certainly usually vetted in advance, the cancellation is likely due to increasing concerns about the prevalence of anti-war feeling in Russia," the UK said.
The UK said that Kremlin officials are almost certainly extremely sensitive about the possibility that any event attended by Putin could be hijacked by unsanctioned discussion about the 'special military operation'.
Earlier this month, Ukraine hit two Russian military airfields
General SVR Telegram channel said that the recent strike on military airfields deep in Russia has spooked Putin, who may spend the New Year in a bunker east of the Ural Mountains.
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Bunker?
As in Hitler?.........................
How does this do anything? Do viruses not live in bunkers?
Yeah. Think there’s a narrative here.
Executive summary: Hypochondriac Bunker Boy Vladimir Putin is headed to one his bunkers to wait out the Moscow flu season. His soldiers can freeze and rot, Muscovites can rot, the psychoKiller Tsar of Russia must be protected. Vlad has killed the most Russians, since his idol Joe Stalin.
Joe Biden regularly moved to bunker in Delaware to prevent him from embarrassing all who pretend he is not significantly affected by dementia.
Might be hospital type. He may be going soon....................
OR there may be credible assassination warnings and being moved to a bunker isolates him from the threats with only the most trusted associates allowed in...
Maybe preceding an application of Lithium to Europe...
Somehow, I find a world leader who has been threatening
a nuclear strike moving into a bunker somewhat unsettling.
I thought that as well..................
I made that joke in yesterday’s version of the article.
“The UK said that Kremlin officials are almost certainly extremely sensitive about the possibility that any event attended by Putin could be hijacked by unsanctioned discussion about the ‘special military operation’.”
Russians and Democrats. Both extremely sensitive about “unsanctioned discussions”.
LMAO
What difference does it make, supposedly Putin is suffering from multiple forms of cancer and will be dead in a matter of days or weeks anyway.
Remember just a few days ago Putin fell down a flight of step and shit his pants.
“… UK daily Express reported”
A liberal news story whose source is another liberal news source.
That’s the rumor anyways...
IF it happens, will the next guy be worse?
Vlad might want to stay away from parts of California where:
There is:
This years flu.
RSV.
The latest Covid Variants.
Or he could spend a couple of weeks here and get some real immunity.
Here is Putin today, 12/14/22, celebrating the fall of Bakhmut with a cup of Stoli and a meal of cornichons, pickled tomatoes, bread with butter and caviar, boiled potatoes with butter and dill, pickled cabbage, fresh herring with onion, and borscht with sour cream.
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