Putin hasn’t been seen for 12 DAYS as Russia-watchers discover glaring error in ‘new’ pics of despot amid WW3 threat

VLADIMIR Putin has mysteriously vanished from public view and hasn't been seen for 12 days in the wake of his terrorist regime's apocalyptic World War Three threat.

A glaring error in supposedly new pictures has raised suspicions as to where Putin actually is.

The last definitive sighting of the Russian leader, 72, was on 7 November in Sochi at the Valdai Forum, where he congratulated Donald Trump for his election victory.

Putin has seemed to make several appearances since this date but a key error could have pointed to the invalidity of these images.

The tyrant was seen meeting the leader of the New People faction, Alexei Nechayev, on 19 November.

Nechayev reportedly told Putin his MPs had just supported the first reading of the federal budget, which surges huge spending to the Russian military machine.

This report suggested an inconsistency as the budget had its first reading on 24 October and has already had its second reading which was not mentioned.

Another issue was Nechayev has since had a haircut, indicating the footage was old.

The channel Faridaily Telegram, which monitors the tyrants movements, claimed this meeting and others that have been broadcast since Vlad's Sochi appearance have been pre-recorded.

It said: “It is no secret that the Kremlin often reports on Putin's bilateral meetings with governors, government officials, heads of state companies, parliamentarians and public figures later than they actually take place."

“This technology, which in journalistic slang is called ‘canned goods’, helps the Russian president to disappear from the public space unnoticed.

“Meanwhile, the Kremlin press service uses the ‘canned goods’ to create the illusion that the president is working non-stop.”

Another "canned-goods" meeting was supposedly held between Putin and hardline Liberal-Democrat Party leader Leonid Slutsky on 14 November.

In this meeting, Slutsky told Putin about parliamentary election results, but these were in September.

Putin also requires people he is meeting face-to-face to undergo a five day quarantine period.

Slutsky had spoken publicly before his apparent 14 November meeting with Putin, which would have meant he didn't undergo the required quarantine.

The Russian tyrants vanishing act between 8 and 20 November comes as Ukraine launched long-range missiles into his country for the first time.

Volodymyr Zelensky's troops used US-supplied ATACMS missiles to destroy a Russian ammunition arsenal in the Bryansk region, after Joe Biden authorised the limited use of these weapons by Kyiv.

Putin has given the green light to a fresh nuclear doctrine which threatens to use these weapons against the West if Ukraine fires long-range missiles on Russian soil.

The Kremlin security council deputy Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s president from 2008-2012, bluntly warning that a nuclear World War Three could be triggered.

He said on Tuesday: “The use of the Alliance missiles in this way can now be qualified as an attack by the bloc countries on Russia.

“In this case, the right arises to launch a retaliatory strike with weapons of mass destruction on Kyiv and the main NATO facilities, wherever they are.

“And this is already World War Three.”

When Putin travelled to Sochi, he was reported to have not stayed the night in the Black Sea resort, which is in range of Ukrainian drones.

Shadow attack

Ukraine has fired British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles into Russia for the first time today.

Images have appeared to show fragments of debris from the long-range missiles in the village of Marine, Kursk.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer previously had not given his blessing to Kyiv to launch these rockets but hinted yesterday that the country could soon be given the green light.

Up to 12 missiles were launched by a Ukrainian aircraft, according to reports.

These British missiles particularly powerful as they are capable of dodging air defences.