Vladimir Putin was at a youngsters’s fundraising experience while he was once asked if he used to be still a believer (Image: Reuters)

Vladimir Putin advised a teen he still believes in Father Christmas, like ‘all customary and respectable people’ do.

Throughout a visit to a youth conference, the Russian president used to be requested whether he still believes in Father Frost, the Russian an identical of Santa, The Telegraph studies.

Putin answered: ‘Of Course I do.

‘All commonplace, decent other people consider in Father Frost.’

The Russian president was once on the conference to raise money for a youngsters’s charity.

this is despite his battle in Ukraine having killed 450 children.

Putin not too long ago drafted Father Frost to the frontline in his recent attempt to boost the morale of his infantrymen.

Videos shared on social media display Ded Moroz, or Grandfather Frost, arriving in a ‘struggle taxi’ for the outlet of the festive tree within the area of Belgorod, some 30 miles north of the border with Ukraine.

Grandfather Frost arrived in an armoured vehicle in the region of Belgorod, near the border with Ukraine

Via Soviet custom, he visits youngsters with items at nighttime on New Year’s Eve.

However this yr he is prone to be preoccupied with consoling the families of squaddies who’ve died at the frontlines of Putin’s invasion.

Despite the horror it has brought to the region, the cheerful Santa used to be observed using within the armoured car whilst blasting Russian pop song.

Some Other video presentations him bringing a bag of oranges to squaddies wearing fight tools in a woodland.

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