Vladimir Putin’s personal cameraman quit the Kremlin immediately after recording his notorious announcement that he was invading Ukraine, it has emerged.
The timing of Ilya Filatov’s departure led to strong speculation that faced dismissal because of a negative attitude to the war.
He denied this, saying that - in his 50s - he had “reached the ceiling in my profession”, and had become weary of Putin’s Covid caution which means his entire entourage are isolated and forbidden from contact with the outside world.
