RISC_Xi [none/use name]

linked to the article that supports that assertion

It doesn’t support that assertion at all. It’s highly speculative based on flight movements and a lack of response from russia lol

Also if you take lack of response from the other side as a confirmation, then oh boy have you checked what the RT and TASS are saying about the war?

Why are you presenting it as a fact when the article says

Movements of planes used by top Kremlin officials show Putin may be in a hideaway near Surgut in western Siberia, it is claimed.

Also “it is claimed” by the Ukrainian side. Do you have any Russian sources to corroborate this?