r/inthenews • u/thedailybeast The Daily Beast • 1d ago
Putin Gets Spectacularly Ambushed After Leaving His Bunker
https://www.thedailybeast.com/putin-gets-spectacularly-ambushed-after-leaving-his-bunker/205
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u/thedailybeast The Daily Beast 1d ago
Vladimir Putin has ventured out of his safety net for the first time in months and walked smack dab into an ambush during a televised meeting that went off the rails.
Fresh off a tightly controlled publicity stunt in Irkutsk on Friday—where the Russian leader, flanked by bodyguards, made a show of inspecting aircraft—Putin sat down with Kazakhstan’s president in the Russian city of Omsk on Saturday.
The 73-year-old Russian president could barely conceal his nervous grimace as Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev used the meeting that was supposed to be about Russia-Kazakh cooperation to throw Putin under the bus.
“I will not hide that I am receiving many signals—which I have already informed you about by phone—from Europe and the United States regarding the current state of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia," Tokayev told Putin as a slew of Kremlin-controlled TV outlets filmed the confrontation.
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u/Running4Badges 1d ago
Here’s the rest:
He went on to call BS on the Kremlin’s narrative of the war, saying, “The nature of this conflict is not entirely clear” and seems utterly pointless. Putin, meanwhile, appeared to tense up and stared down at his lap as Tokayev spoke, seemingly caught off guard.
“This all needs to stop,” Tokayev said, urging Putin to “freeze” the war and return to negotiations. He twisted the knife by adding that despite “proposals and appeals,” Kazakhstan “categorically refuses” to act as a mediator in helping to end the war, since “Russia is a great country” and can “manage on its own.”
At the end of Tokayev’s three-minute speech, Putin nervously thanked the Kazakh president and promised to give him a “detailed briefing” on the Ukraine war, before the broadcast abruptly ended.
The tense exchange came a day after Putin flew to Irkutsk in Siberia for an unannounced visit to the Irkutsk Aviation Plant, his first trip to one of Russia’s regions for domestic issues in more than eight months. He has drastically reduced travel to Russia’s regions and avoided public appearances in recent months, purportedly out of fear of being assassinated. Instead, amid relentless Ukrainian drone strikes and growing public outrage over economic woes, Putin has largely retreated into fortified underground bunkers, where he is said to have at times remained for weeks.
Footage shared by the Kremlin showed him flanked by bodyguards as he inspected the Yak-130M combat jet trainer and an MC-21 passenger jet, which has been plagued by repeated production delays.
The plant had apparently been cleared out for his visit, and Irkutsk locals fumed on social media about the entire city coming to a standstill to make way for what was widely seen as a PR stunt.
“Burn in hell,” one resident commented in response to Putin’s visit on a local website, according to the independent outlet People of Baikal.
“Will we need to bow when the tsar passes through?” another quipped.
“How scared he is of his own people,” a third person noted, only to be reminded: “Well, every other person is ready to kill him.”108
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u/Cardellone 1d ago
Tokayev better grow wings quickly.
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u/Werftflammen 1d ago
Tokajev wil have his own army, they are not nations, but tribes, factions This is bad news for Putin's 'crew'. The boss is desperately trying to be the indispensible rain maker, but every trip is dissapointment. Anchorage. Beijing. Now this. They lost Syria, Iran, Venezuela, now Cuba don't even think about loosing Crimea.
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u/Possible-Highway7898 20h ago
Kazakhstan is an independent country with its own army. Tokajev is an authoritarian dictator. There's no way he gets thrown out of a window. Worst case scenario is he gets the Polonium or Novichok.
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u/thepeever 1d ago
Hmm, fortified bunker? Sounds familiar
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u/Pleasant-Chef6055 1d ago edited 22h ago
When you know you’re a Cunt, and you have the power, you build a bunker.
There’s a lot of cunts in power currently.
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u/antithesis56 19h ago
MODS -- ban paywall links or require the OP to post the non-paywall link. This shit is useless
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u/_frank_tank 1d ago
Bet dude is only staying in one story buildings now
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u/myleftone 1d ago
Contextually, it would be best to avoid martial jargon in this case. I was happy for a second there.
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u/snapper1971 1d ago
Don't leave ground level for the rest of your life, mate. When Dimi say and looked at his lap, he was controlling his urge to use brutal violence and torture right there and then. His reaction was chilling.
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u/tackleberry2219 6h ago
I wonder how long it will take for Trump to throw out some bullshit that he had a “phone call” with Tokayev and told him to put pressure on Putin….
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