Russian President Vladimir Putin was spotted with Russian “nuclear football” while attending the funeral of a far-right politician on Friday.
Mr Putin was accompanied by a man in a dark suit carrying a briefcase containing the codes needed to remotely resolve a nuclear attack.
The mourners were expelled from Christ the Savior Cathedral while the Russian leader paid tribute to ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky amid fears of assassination attempts.
At the open coffin, Putin took a bouquet of roses and placed them on the bottom of the coffin, then was baptized. No armed guards stood by the coffin as he approached to pay his respects.
Mr Putin laid flowers at Zhirinovsky’s coffin as he paid tribute
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“For Vladimir Putin, the hall where people said goodbye to Zhirinovsky was completely empty of people – even relatives in chairs,” the VCHK-OGPU channel told Telegram.
Like nuclear football worn by the president’s military aides in the United States, Russia’s nuclear briefcase, known as the Cheget, is designed to be available to the president at all times. It is expected that such a briefcase will accompany the Minister of Defense and the Chief of General Staff.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky was an extreme right-wing politician and leader of the ultranationalist Liberal Democratic Party. He died of Covid 15 weeks after predicting the date of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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