Moscow-based political scientist claims that Putin put his family in a nuclear bunker located in the Altai Mountains.
QUICK FACTS:
- Political scientist and former professor Valery Solovey claims that Russian President Vladimir Putin sent his family to a nuclear bunker.
- According to The Daily Mail, the bunker is part of an underground city in Siberia in the Altai Mountains and was designed to protect in the event of nuclear war.
- Solovey claimed that the Russian president’s family was evacuated to the high-tech bunker “equipped with the latest science and technology.”
- Some conservatives think this story is fake, according to Summit News, claiming the media blackout from Russian sources such as RT and Sputnik are part of information control.
MORE ABOUT THE PROFESSOR:
- Solovey was Formerly a professor at Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) which is known to be attended by future top diplomats and spies
- “At the weekend, President Putin’s family was evacuated to a special bunker prepared in case of nuclear war,” said the professor in a video. “This bunker is located in the [mountainous] Altai Republic. In fact, it is not a bunker, but a whole underground city, equipped with the latest science and technology.”
- He warned: “I hope this means something to you? That the President sends his family to this bunker?” Solevey said before claiming that the move to the bunker was due to “failure” of Putin’s strategic plans to conquer Ukraine and Solovey.
BACKGROUND:
- Currently, Russian losses during the invasion of Ukraine have varied between 700 and a Ukrainian claim of 4,500, according to the Daily Mail with Vox reporting that “the first few days of war in Ukraine went badly for Russia.”
- From the other side, Russia claims that they’ve hit 1,146 Ukrainian military infrastructure facilities including 31 command points and communications centers, 81 S-300 air defense bases, plus Buk M-1 and Osa air defense missile systems, and 75 radar stations.
