Putin moved to a bunker amid flu outbreak in Kremlin: Reports
15 Dec 2022 11:30:51
Moscow, Dec 15: A major flu outbreak hit Kremlin officials amid speculation Vladimir Putin will imminently go into isolation in a bunker a report said. The revelation of the flu sweeping Vladimir Putin's presidential team comes amid speculation that he is set to hide away by the New Year amid health and security concerns, The Mirror reported.
The Russian president has already canceled his annual set-piece press conference this month, a first in ten years. Vladimir Putin's address to parliament is not ruled out this month, but the unusual unprompted Kremlin claim of his close officials being hit by flu may result in its cancellation, the report said.
Novaya Gazeta Europe news outlet reported that “many people in the Kremlin were down with flu”, attributing the infection disclosure to Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov. Today Verstka media outlet reported that Vladimir Putin is likely to abandon his address to the upper house of parliament. The outlet also claimed that Vladimir Putin and his close family are to spend the annual New Year vacation in a bunker east of the Ural Mountains. “Despite the president's order to strengthen security measures at strategic facilities, the already prohibitive security measures of Vladimir Putin himself have really intensified. Putin has begun to spend more time in bunker-type premises.
And the president and his loved ones [will celebrate] the New Year in a bunker located behind the Ural Mountains, instead of the residence in Sochi, as previously planned," the report said.