RUSSIA: Not possible to work there: Kremlin says Putin ‘too vigorous to hunker down in any bunker’

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MOSCOW, December 18. /TASS/: Russian President Vladimir Putin would be unable to work from a secret bunker, considering his potency, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the Komsomolskaya Pravda radio station Friday, adding that there is no bunker under the president’s countryside residence.

"There are no bunkers," the spokesman said. "No head of state, especially as vigorous as Putin, would be able to hunker down in any bunker."

Commenting on rumors that the president works from this kind of isolation, Peskov called it fiction and a "complete nonsense."

When asked what allowed Putin to resume his trips across the country recently, Peskov noted:

"Time goes on, certain anti-epidemic experience accumulates that makes it possible to extend the contacts area."

He also recalled Putin’s own comments that some people may be quarantined before meeting him, but, in case of emergency meeting, it can take place at a distance of five to six meters.