In May I wrote about reports that President Putin was spending a lot more time in bunkers directing the war in Ukraine and a lot less time being seen in public.
In recent months, Russia’s Federal Protective Service (FSO), which guards top officials, has sharply tightened security around the president. He spends more time in underground bunkers micromanaging the war and has grown more detached from civilian affairs, according to people who know Putin in Moscow and a person close to European intelligence services…
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