Who is Gleb Karakulov? Vladimir Putin’s protection officer defects

He said that, after the invasion, he "simply could not be in the service of this president." In the interviews, he compared the Putin he observed in 2009 with the current president of Russia as "two different people," comments that tally with what others have said. “Now he is very closed. He has protected himself from the whole world with all sorts of barriers, the same quarantine, the lack of information. His perception of reality has been distorted,” he said.