A presidential plane linked to Vladimir Putin flew north from Moscow towards Tver and switched off its transponder, according to multiple reports.
Other business jets were seen making an exodus from the capital towards St Petersburg.
Earlier there were reports from Ukrainian intelligence indicating Putin had left from Moscow by helicopter for his palace at Valdai, between Moscow and St Petersburg.
It comes as a sinister message posted on the Wagner Telegram channel on Saturday said: ‘Putin made the wrong choice. All the worse for him.
‘Soon we will have a new president.’
Sources close to Putin insisted he was working in the Kremlin – an unusual location for him except for short visits.
Putin’s presidential plane took off from Moscow to St. Petersburg, according to multiple reports
A sinister message posted on the Wagner Telegram channel on Saturday said: ‘Putin made the wrong choice. All the worse for him. Soon we will have a new president’
His spokesman Dmitry Peskov…