Putin Still Didn’t Dare To Appear In Public After Fled From Moscow

Propagandists show pre-recorded speeches of the President of the Russian Federation before the rebellion.

Russian television showed Putin saying that he was confident that the goals of the war would be achieved. It was filmed before Prigozhin's rebellion, ВВС reports.

The Russian state news agency TASS quotes excerpts from an interview with Vladimir Putin from the semi-official show “Moscow. Kremlin. Putin”, which airs on Sundays on the state TV channel Russia-1.

BBC clarifies that the interview was recorded on June 21, that is, before Prigozhin's rebellion. Putin spoke in detail about macroeconomic indicators, which, in his words, “everything is ok” (many of them are noticeably different from pre-war ones). “All this in a complex makes us feel confident in the current situation. And, of course, we are able to realize all the plans and tasks we face. This also applies to the defence of the country, this concerns the conduct of the “SVO” [the so-called special military operation], this concerns the economy as a whole and separate area,” Putin said.

Recall that during the march of Prigozhin's army on Moscow, Putin's plane left the capital of the Russian Federation and disappeared from the radar in the Tver region. According to Israeli philanthropist Leonid Nevzlin, Putin hid in the bunker of his Valdai residence.