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‘Paranoid’ Putin accused of surrounding himself with ‘actors’ at New Year speech as same faces seen at series of events
PUPPET master Vladimir Putin has been accused of using “paid actors” to pose as soldiers in his New Year speech.
The tyrant’s annual address saw him flanked by troops who had supposedly fought in Ukraine during his bloody invasion.
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Donning war medals and sporting poker faces, the 20 squaddies stood behind Putin as he coughed and spluttered through his nine-minute message.
He raised a glass of champagne to praise their war efforts – while a fresh barrage of missiles rained down on civilians in Kyiv.
The Russian President told them their nation “was driven to the point of either surrendering everything or fighting.”
“As long as we have people like you… of course nothing can be given up,” he swooned.
But eagle-eyed social media users spotted a familiar face lurking behind the bloodthirsty despot.
A blonde woman with a sweeping fringe can be seen perched behind Putin’s right shoulder, almost smiling as he delivers his speech.
Although she is sporting full military gear, some people suspect she has more stage presence than soldier experience.
That’s because the mystery blonde has already cropped up in a number of Mad Vlad’s promo clips as a prop.
She has moonlighted as a sailor as well as a church worshipper in a series of other videos – alongside a few male comrades.
Putin’s female associate was seen donning hi-vis waterproofs while on a fishing boat with the President, but this time let her locks hang loose.
She is joined by three blokes on the ship – who also seem to have made multiple appearances in Russian propaganda.
The trio were recognised in a number of other pieces of footage by savvy internet sleuths – including a camping trip and a breakfast meeting.
Some have claimed the mystery woman resembles Larisa Sergukhina, a Member of the Commission of the Regional Duma on monitoring of legislation.
The blonde’s male accomplices are suspected to have joined her on the boat as well as at the church service she was pictured at.
Putin has been blasted for using “paid actors” in his latest desperate attempt at feigning support for his disastrous invasion.
Social media users suggested he was trying to “copy” President Zelensky‘s respectful displays in Bakhmut.
The Ukrainian leader made an unannounced visit to the devastated city, meeting troops and handing out awards to soldiers on December 20.
Nobel peace prize 2022 co-winner Oleksandra Matviichuk was among those who shared photos of Putin’s “actors”.
She said: “Putin wanted to copy Zelensky, who came to the Ukrainian defenders in Bakhmut. But after ten months of full-scale war, even actors are in short supply in Russia.”
The President was previously accused of faking public appearances by using actors back in May this year.
He was suspected to have staged a visit to a military hospital in Moscow after one of the “patients” was supposedly recognised from a previous visit to a factory.
It was claimed Putin employs trusted stooges so he can avoid any contact with real Russians.
As well as speculation surrounding his soldiers, the state of Putin’s health is also under suspicion.
Question marks hang over the 70-year-old tyrant’s condition as rumours swirl he is battling cancer and even Parkinson’s disease.
It comes as new Western intelligence analysis claims Putin is suffering from megalomania caused by cancer drugs.
A senior spy official from Denmark alleged “delusions of grandeur” and the Russian president’s “moon-shaped face” in early 2022 were signs of the side effects of hormone treatment.
Rumours have persisted that Putin is “critically ill” and bombshell spy documents leaked to The Sun appeared to confirm he has early-stage Parkinson’s disease and pancreatic cancer.
His New Year address – the longest of his two-decade rule – was riddled with coughs and splitters.
But Putin still managed to send a massive bombardment of missiles to decimate Ukraine on New Year’s Eve.
As celebrations got underway across the world in the early hours of New Year’s Day, another wave and rockets were fired.
Ukraine said air defense systems managed to intercept 23 targets over Kyiv amid a string of drone attacks.
James Webb Telescope captures unique dust rings surrounding two stars
The James Webb Telescope has captured an unusual dust pattern around two stars that can track the passage of time similar to ring patterns on the inside of tree trunks. The image, detailed by the European Space Agency and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, shows a pattern of 17 concentric rings made up of dust particles surrounding two stars known as Wolf-Rayet 140.
According to JPL, Wolf-Rayet stars are thought to be rare in our galaxy, and only 600 have been discovered so far. And Wolf-Rayet 140 is the only such system that’s been found to have this type of ring pattern, due to the peculiar shape of its orbit, which is “elongated” rather than circular. The rings some from a reaction that occurs when the two stars come close together, once every eight years, forming a kind of “fingerprint” around the stars.
“Each ring was created when the two stars came close together and their stellar winds (streams of gas they blow into space) met, compressing the gas and forming dust,” the European Space Agency explains. “The stars’ orbits bring them together about once every eight years; like the rings of a tree’s trunk, the dust loops mark the passage of time.”
The image also demonstrates the level of detail possible with James Webb’s instruments. Prior to this capture, scientists using ground-based telescopes could only see two dust rings around Wolf-Rayet 140.
You can read more about the discovery in Nature.