THE battle of egos continues as Vladimir Putin dons a navy uniform in an effort to upstage The Don.
The Russian tyrant was noticed on Tuesday in navy fatigues throughout the Zapad-2025 (West 2025) warfare video games.
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His army-outfit look got here the morning previous to Donald Trump touching down within the UK.
Putin was final seen in a military uniform in March, after which critics claimed it was his physique double.
Showing at Mulino coaching floor within the Nizhny Novgorod area, the Kremlin dictator was not less than 500 miles from the closest frontline within the warfare.
Putin – Russia’s Supreme Commander-in-Chief – has steadfastly prevented the frontline, not like Ukrainian chief Volodymyr Zelensky.
Zelensky repeatedly wears the navy uniform and seems alongside his fight troopers.
The 72-year-old selected to don the fatigues forward of Trump’s arrival at Windsor Fortress on Tuesday night time.
The Zapad-2025 warfare video games are a present of Russian power to the West.
On Tuesday, Putin thanked international observers and members.
“I want to thanks on your participation,” he stated.
“I hope it was helpful from knowledgeable standpoint [and] from the standpoint of restoring a excessive degree of belief between our international locations”.
The warfare video games included plans for firing nuclear missiles at NATO international locations.
“I hope it was helpful from knowledgeable standpoint [and] from the standpoint of restoring a excessive degree of belief between our international locations,” Putin stated.
He went on to boast that the apply for attacking NATO was “happening at 41 coaching grounds”.
“100,000 servicemen are collaborating, [with] about 10,000 weapons and gear techniques,” he stated.
He added that 333 tactical and strategic aviation plane and navy transport planes have been participating within the workouts.
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“Greater than 247 floor ships, submarines and assist vessels are additionally used,” he stated.
“Twenty 5 international delegations have arrived to take part within the occasions of the 2025 train.”
The dictator additionally tried on a pair of Strekoza tactical glasses, whereas in Kharkiv, japanese Ukraine, his troops unleashed a drone strike on a residential space of the town.
A video of 1 missile may very well be seen spiralling by way of the air earlier than hitting a constructing, leaving it engulfed in flames, whereas one faculty was additionally hit by a drone.
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