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Paranoid Putin brutally mocked as despot's soaring assassination fears ridiculed

Paranoid warmonger Vladimir Putin is being brutally ridiculed on social media for his paranoia over an assassination bid. The Kremlin dictator is reported to be hunkering in his bunkers over concerns that his own entourage is plotting a coup.

This is separate from the new threat he faces from Ukraine’s missiles and drones which are now far more lethal and able to strike at longer distances. The memes show him turned into a laughing stock as he fears his Victory Day parade on Red Square in Moscow on Saturday could be disrupted by attacks by Volodymyr Zelensky. He is seen under an armour-plated umbrella and covered by anti-drone nets as he seeks protection. An AI video shows the 73-year-old Russian ruler being hunted by a Ukrainian UAV. “A drone is chasing me,” says Putin. “Get away from me! Stop! Police! Help! It’s right above me. Stay where you are! What is happening? Who is controlling this thing?”

An AI video shows the 73-year-old Russian ruler being hunted by a Ukrainian UAV. In the video, Putin says: “A drone is chasing me. Get away from me! Stop! Police! Help!

“It’s right above me. Stay where you are! What is happening? Who is controlling this thing?”

The camera switches to show the controls in the hands of Zelensky, who said today that the war will end immediately if Putin stops attacking, something he refuses to do.

Memes shared by Ukrainian Telegram channels depict Putin inside a “mangal,” a metal cage normally fitted to armoured vehicles for drone protection, being pushed across Red Square by Russian soldiers.

Another image shows him delivering a parade speech from inside the same cage, secured with a padlock from the outside.

Additional memes portray him seeking safety inside a transparent inflatable zorb while being followed by military vehicles, or sitting among Second World War veterans while wearing full metal armour. One more shows him on Red Square with two veterans holding a frame fitted with an anti‑drone net above his head.

A commenter Sergey Afanasyev said: “Putin is a war criminal who belongs not on the podium on 9 May, but in The Hague. His cult of personality is built on a facade: the tsar, the parade, the fanfare. But what is needed is desacralisation.

“So that the whole flock can see: the emperor has no clothes, the empire is full of holes, and the ‘great geo-strategist’ is nothing but a frightened old man, looking up at the sky.”