Politics

Paranoid Putin ‘micromanaging’ Ukraine war from underground bunkers

Eric Kliszcz
 04.05.2026, 11:33
Vladimir Putin reportedly spends increasingly more time in bunkers away from Moscow. Photo: PAP/EPA/MIKHAIL METZEL/SPUTNIK/KREMLIN POOL via fotoserwis
Vladimir Putin reportedly spends increasingly more time in bunkers away from Moscow. Photo: PAP/EPA/MIKHAIL METZEL/SPUTNIK/KREMLIN POOL via fotoserwis

The Russian president has reportedly become “detached” from civilian matters.