Tyrant Vladimir Putin is so gripped with paranoia he is using a body-double to foil any would-be assassins, it has been claimed.
The Russian leader is shaken and fears the country's military top brass could stage a coup to oust him after he sacked eight generals for failing to capture Ukraine as quickly as initially expected.
The paranoid despot has a lookalike who stands in for him at Kremlin meetings and is used as a decoy when the man himself moves around, the Daily Star reports.
