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Official photo from Putin’s visit to Damascus, Maj. Andrey Ivanyutin left-most; right: photo from Ivanyutin’s VK social media profile on a trip to Minsk, Belarus. Microsoft’s Azure face comparison tool estimates the two faces to belong to the same person.

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