Putin ‘preparing to make nuclear war decision’, say Kremlin ‘insiders’

Vladimir Putin is preparing to make important decisions about launching a tactical nuclear strike from a bunker far outside Moscow, it was alleged today.

Putin – who turns 70 on Friday – has warned his immediate family, including gymnastics partner Alina Kabaeva, 40, of the possibility of rapid evacuation, it is alleged.

He believes the bunker is “safe” from attacks by the West and that top officials from his security apparatus and government will be moved to the secret location, the General SVR Channel said.

The anti-Kremlin outlet — which claims inside information from Putin’s circle — has long claimed he suffers from acute health problems, but offers no evidence for its claims.

Putin is believed to have several bunkers in Siberia, one linked to the massive new liquid suitcase terminal at Sabetta in the Yamal Peninsula and the other in the Altai Mountains.

“Relatives and friends of the heads of state will be delivered to the bunker in advance,” a report from the station said today.

‘Alina Kabaeva with [the couple’s] children and two older daughters with children and cohabitants were warned of the possibility of urgent evacuation.

But not everyone in Russia’s leadership was lucky.

Putin, for example, has ordered the evacuation of the ‘necessary minimum’ of Russian officials in the event of a nuclear threat.

These include Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and Speaker of Parliament Vyacheslav Volodin.

It would be the Attorney General, the Security Council leadership – but not ex-President Dmitry Medvedev – as well as key officials of his presidential government and three security and espionage agencies, the FSB, FSO, SVR with their families.

His Ministry of Defense has several bunkers, including in the Urals.

The alleged evacuation includes his eldest daughter Maria Vorontsova, 36, a geneticist, and Katerina Tikhonova, 35, a high-kicking ‘rock’n’roll’ dancer turned mathematician with their husbands and children.

But an unrecognized Putin ‘love child’ Luiza Rozova, aka Elizaveta Krivonogikh, 19, has not been invited to the bunker, nor has a mysterious son from a previous relationship, it was alleged.

Rozova is the daughter of cleaner and multimillionaire Svetlana Krivonogikh, 47, now co-owner of a major Russian bank, one of the richest women in the country with an estimated financial and real estate wealth of £74 million.

There are no senators on the bunker list, it was claimed.

‘The Federation Council’ [senate] wasn’t necessary at all.

Putin didn’t even need his mistresses’ own children – a girl and a boy, whom no one is going to evacuate.

“Of course some friends of the president and their families and many servants of the bunker residents are also evacuated.”

At the start of the war, rumors circulated that Putin had retreated to a bunker in Siberia.

A special bunker reportedly could hold 100,000 people, and was designed for him to rule Russia in the event of Armageddon.

In addition to a location close to a large Gazprom facility in the far north of Russia, there is also a rumor that a hi-tech bunker in the Altai Mountains is hidden under a large dacha.

According to General SVR, Putin has spent the past few days in Siberia since his illegal annexation of parts of eastern Ukraine.

His office said that yesterday [Mon] he had met with Culture Minister Olga Lyubimova in the Kremlin, a session that actually took place earlier, the channel said.

Instead, the president met shamans who performed a “rite” for Putin with a “burning bird” that could mean “victory and death,” leaving the interpretation to “the president’s painful imagination,” he claimed.

His defense minister, Sergei Shoigu, is known to have an interest in shamans, who are popular in his native Tuva region, as are other members of the Russian elite.

“Regardless of the shamanic ravings that the president is taking quite seriously, Putin is preparing to make important decisions about launching a tactical nuclear strike from a bunker far from Moscow, and he believes he is safe.”

The station claimed: ‘It is high time Putin was sent to a psychiatric hospital for mandatory treatment under strict supervision, but apparently everyone is interested in participating in the experiment ‘what happens when you give an idiot the chance to do the destroy the world’ ?’

Separately, the pro-Kremlin war reporter Andrey Rudenko threatened a nuclear attack on the West.

“US residents saw a nuclear mushroom over Las Vegas,” he wrote.

Las Vegas residents were terrified of the nuclear mushroom cloud over the city.

“God shows these people that it’s worth stopping…otherwise, sooner or later such mushrooms could grow all over the world…”

General SVR has long claimed that Putin suffers from serious illnesses, including cancer, Parkinson’s disease and schizoaffective disorder, but also provides regular updates on the war.

Its claims cannot be verified, but it was one of the first to pre-report the shape of Putin’s recent mobilization strategy.

It was reportedly written by an exiled Kremlin lieutenant general known by the alias Viktor Mikhailovich.

The channel claimed that the Kremlin wants to ban it, but has so far failed to do so.