Putin Black Sea retreat demolished as Russian leader fears visiting—report
www.newsweek.com
Russia's president only spent eight days at his Sochi residence in 2023, in contrast to an average of over 30 days annually before the Ukraine war.

Part of Vladimir Putin’s summer residence has been demolished with the Russian leader seemingly increasingly reluctant to visit the property on the Black Sea because of the dangers posed by Ukrainian drone attacks

  • saltesc@lemmy.world
    201·
    3 months ago

    Ohh, a residential retreat, not a military one. They did that for clicks and algorithms.

  • Nyx0r
    11·
    3 months ago

    Aw widdle piss baby scared?

    The outlet said that up until the end of first year of the war, the aircraft he traveled on could be monitored using live flight tracker Flightradar24. Since September 2023, planes used by Putin have been hiding their location amid repeated strikes by Ukrainian drones on Russian territory.

  • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world
    8·
    3 months ago

    Independent Russian investigative outlet Proekt (Project) said satellite imagery shows that the main building of the Bocharov Ruchey property in Sochi had been demolished in February and March, leaving a pit and construction equipment in its place.

    Completed in 1955, Bocharov Ruchey is in the Tsentralny district of Sochi, and has played host to visits by numerous world leaders.

    It is located around 160 miles south of what has been dubbed “Putin’s palace,” a $1 billion site which came to widespread public attention in 2021 in a film by the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s Anti Corruption Foundation (FBK).