Putin is accused of sending a DOUBLE to Mariupol: Ukraine says Putin's CHIN is ... trends now

Putin is accused of sending a DOUBLE to Mariupol: Ukraine says Putin's CHIN is ... trends now
Putin is accused of sending a DOUBLE to Mariupol: Ukraine says Putin's CHIN is ... trends now

Putin is accused of sending a DOUBLE to Mariupol: Ukraine says Putin's CHIN is ... trends now

Vladimir Putin was mocked by Ukraine today for allegedly 'sending a lookalike to war-ravaged Mariupol' in a high security visit.

Kyiv official Anton Gerashchenko posted three images of Putin's chin and questioned whether they belonged to the same man.

He taunted: 'What's up with your chin, Putin?'

The Interior Minister advisor posted: 'Looks like lately his make-up artists (i.e. for the recent trips of the bunker man to the occupied Crimea and Mariupol) had to work with quite a low-quality copy, not even a double but its copy. I wonder which one of them was real?'

One picture showed Putin, 70, one month ago in an address to the Federal Assembly in Moscow.

One picture showed Putin, 70, one month ago in an address to the Federal Assembly in Moscow

One picture showed Putin, 70, one month ago in an address to the Federal Assembly in Moscow

Another was Putin's reported visit to naval port Sevastopol in Crimea on 18 March.

And the third was from footage released the following day evidently showing the dictator in war-blitzed Mariupol.

The first image showed his chin tight and precise.

But the image in Sevastopol - grabbed from Ukraine in 2014 - incited a sagging chin, while the Mariupol chin appears firmer but less so than in the Moscow picture.

A Russian source said: 'He has these moments when he looks like a babushka [grandmother] without teeth.'

There have been repeated claims that Putin uses body doubles on some trips outside Moscow, or when there are many people around.

Today Telegram channel General SVR insisted Putin had not been to Sevastopol or Mariupol, a city invaded after a bloody battle last year.

'The information from the Kremlin's resources that Vladimir Putin visited Crimea and Mariupol is NOT true,' claimed the channel which says it has insider sources.

Another was Putin's reported visit to naval port Sevastopol in Crimea on 18 March

Another was Putin's reported visit to naval port Sevastopol in Crimea on 18 March

The third was from footage released the following day evidently showing the dictator in war-blitzed Mariupol

The third was from footage released the following day evidently showing the dictator in war-blitzed Mariupol

In Crimea, a double of the president was noted with a short visit and solely for the sake of a video photo shoot.'

The double was 'forbidden to conduct meaningful conversations and

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