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https://www.tellerreport.com/news/2023-04-04-he-was-an-officer-close-to-putin-–-reveals-details-from-inside-the-kremlin.H1-nGWEtbn.html
A former FSO officer who defected last year has come forward with information about Putin (he worked fairly closely with the President for many years and has taken many trips with him).
Apparently Putin never uses a cellphone or browses the internet. He has videolink and landlines set up everywhere he goes. He is very self-isolating and has grown more paranoid over time: "Putin does not use the internet or mobile phone. He only receives information from his inner circle, which means that he lives in an information vacuum. All food is inspected and tested by a special team. On trips, firefighters and engineers accompany them to examine all the premises, he says and continues: "The president has a phone booth that we take with us on every trip abroad. It is a cube about 2.5 meters high that you can talk in without risking being intercepted by foreign intelligence services."
On the flip side, he does not believe Putin has any serious health problems, apart from those normally assosciated with age.
I suppose none of this is particularly surprising, but it's the first time I've heard it from a source who was close enough to Putin to know him personally.
This guy's whole story. Pretty interesting.