There has been speculation for years about the authenticity of the Russian leader's purported meet and greets.
On Wednesday, the Kremlin said that the Russian president had visited a hospital to meet with servicemen wounded in the Ukraine war.
Accompanied by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, images released by the Kremlin pool show Putin shaking the hands of servicemen at Moscow's Mandryk military hospital. There has been speculation for years over the authenticity of Russian President Vladimir Putin's photographed meetings with members of the Russian public. Putin is pictured in Moscow on May 26, 2022.Putin met with hospital staff and asked one soldier about his nine-month old son, whom the Russian leader said would be proud of his father, according to a Rossiya 1 TV post shared on Telegram.
But eagle-eyed social media users had an unnerving sense of déjà vu."Putin met with a wounded soldier who, by a strange coincidence, was also a factory worker he previously met,"Putin met with a wounded soldier who, by a strange coincidence, was also a factory worker he previously met.
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