Vladimir Putin informed a teen he still thinks in Father Christmas, like ‘all normal and decent people’ do.
During a check out to a youth conference, the Russian president was asked whether he still thinks in Father Frost, the Russian equivalent of Santa, The Telegraph reports.
Putin responded: ‘Of course I do.
‘All normal, decent people believe in Father Frost.’
The Russian president was at the conference to raise cash for a kids’s charity.
This is in spite of his war in Ukraine having actually eliminated 450 kids.
Putin just recently prepared Father Frost to the frontline in his most current effort to enhance the spirits of his soldiers.
Videos shared on social networks program Ded Moroz, or Grandfather Frost, showing up in a ‘battle taxi’ for the opening of the joyful tree in the area of Belgorod, some 30 miles north of the border withUkraine
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By Soviet custom, he goes to kids with presents at midnight on New Year’sEve
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But this year he is most likely to be preoccupied with consoling the households of soldiers who have actually passed away on the frontlines of Putin’s intrusion.
Despite the scary it has actually given the area, the pleasant Santa was seen riding in the armoured automobile while blasting Russian popular song.
Another video reveals him bringing a bag of oranges to soldiers worn fight equipment in a forest.
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