An officer responsible for providing encrypted communications to President Vladimir Putin said he has fled Russia over the war in Ukraine and disclosed details about the Russian leader in an interview with the Dossier Center investigative website Tuesday. He added that Putin remains paranoid about getting infected with Covid-19 three years into the pandemic and forces every employee to quarantine for two weeks before they can be in the same room with him. Karakulov said his reservations toward Russia's leadership first appeared with the annexation of Crimea in 2014 and his work organizing expensive trips for Putin and Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin