Vladimir Putin has earned himself a slagging after choosing to wear ear protectors in a weird way. The alleged reason is even more ridiculous than it looks.
The deranged Russian president was recently spotted at a Chechen shooting range alongside the head of the Chechen Republic and close military ally Ramzan Kadyrov.
While the Chechen warlord wore his ear protectors the regular way, on his head, the Russian despot wore the protective gear with the strap jutting out around his chin.
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Why? To avoid messing up his non-existent hair, according to one of Putin’s critics.
A big-name blogger Rustem Adagamov posted: “[Putin’s] hairdresser has to style the sparse hairs so that it is not visible that the Russian president is already completely bald.
“And headphones will ruin all the beauty.”
Footage of Putin wearing the ear protectors like pill has been shared on X, where people have been equally unkind.
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“What a w***er,” one person commented on the video’s post, which is captioned “Is everybody too scared to tell him that’s hot how you wear ear defenders? This is even better than Elon’s backwards cowboy hat.”
“Might remove any false strands of hair he has glued to his head if he wore them correctly,”another X user commented, while a third joked that Putin “doesn’t want to mess up his hair”.
Another person mused: “I’m surprised everyone else didn’t immediately switch their earmuffs to the same orientation.”
It’s believed Putin made the surprise visit to Chechnya in an attempt to drum up support while Ukrainian troops take the war across the border, reports MailOnline.
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On Wednesday, August 21, the Kremlin said that Russian troops had begun to push back Ukrainian forces in Kursk.
Ukraine’s incursion caught Putin off guard, leaving him with a manpower problem. As a result, Putin deployed Aerospace Forces to the region, in an outside-of-the-box-move.
Spaceport service men, including engineers, mechanics, and personnel from radar stations, who would otherwise been guarding Russia ’s nuclear deterrents, make up the galactic force.
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