Vladimir Putin Using Multiple Body Doubles During Public Appearances?

A team of Japanese researchers think they have the evidence.

Accusations that Russian President Vladimir Putin uses body doubles to make public appearances have been around for years—although the evidence to back this claim has been sketchy.

Until now.

Oh, come on. You’re Putin me on!

A team of researchers in Japan claims their analysis using artificial intelligence provides proof that the Putin body doubles do exist.

Rumours of Putin's deployment of body doubles abound as others claim he is suffering a litany of health problems. 

Yet now it appears there is compelling independent scientific evidence for his use of doppelgangers.

A report for major Japanese TV network TBS surmised that the real Putin hosted this year's annual Red Square Victory Day parade on 9 May.

But sophisticated facial recognition technology found that the Putin who inspected the Crimean Bridge ten months ago was only a 53 per cent match with the Putin on Red Square.

'Experts on face recognition would refer to this as ''not matching'' in most cases, which leads us to the assumption this can be a double,' said the commentary.

One more Putin appearance - at the war front in occupied Mariupol in March - shows only a 40 per cent facial recognition likeness with the Putin seen on Red Square, says the analysis.

Meanwhile, there was only an 18 per cent facial recognition likeness between the Putin on the Crimean Bridge and the Putin in Mariupol.

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