It seizes on speculation that the Kremlin president's only trip so far to newly-invaded territory in Mariupol was performed by a doppelganger, and asks: "Who is ruling Russia?"
It is unclear who made the footage but it appears to be aimed at reaching Russians who rely on uber-loyalist state media for their news.
Rumours are rife that Putin 'understudies' -- who have undergone plastic surgery to resemble him -- are deployed increasingly as his health worsens amid rumours of cancer and early stage Parkinson's.
"Evidently the weakest double was sent to Mariupol", states the video in Russian. "They forgot to put in his jaw."
Earlier Ukraine mocked Putin for allegedly "sending a lookalike to war-ravaged Mariupol" in a high security visit, Daily Mail reported.
Kyiv official
He taunted: "What's up with your chin, Putin?"
The Interior Minister advisor posted: 'Looks like lately his makeup artists (i.e. for the recent trips of the bunker man to the occupied Crimea and Mariupol) had to work with quite a low-quality copy, not even a double but its copy.
"I wonder which one of them was real?"
One picture showed Putin, 70, one month ago in an address to the Federal Assembly in Moscow.
Another was Putin's reported visit to naval port
And the third was from footage released the following day evidently showing Putin in war-blitzed Mariupol, Daily Mail reported.
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