{"id":42480,"date":"2025-04-23T00:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T00:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/42480\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T00:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T00:43:10","slug":"vladimir-putins-secret-son-10-with-olympic-gymnast-pictured-for-first-time-after-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/42480\/","title":{"rendered":"Vladimir Putin\u2019s &#8216;secret son, 10, with Olympic gymnast pictured for first time after leak&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE first pics of Vladimir Putin\u2019s secret son have been leaked, say anti-Kremlin activists.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Images of Ivan Vladimirovich Putin, ten, surfaced on Telegram channel VChk-OGPU, which has links to spooks and other insiders.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Vladimir Putin and Sultan Haitham bin Tariq meeting at the Kremlin.\" height=\"718\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"AFP\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/548da203-40eb-4096-b1dc-fee3e24c7df5.jpg\" data-caption=\"The first pics of Vladimir Putin\u2019s secret son have been leaked, say anti-Kremlin activists\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/548da203-40eb-4096-b1dc-fee3e24c7df5.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>3<\/p>\n<p>The first pics of Vladimir Putin\u2019s secret son have been leaked, say anti-Kremlin activistsCredit: AFP<a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo of a young boy, purported to be Vladimir Putin's son.\" height=\"960\" width=\"901\" data-credit=\"East2West\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/7890572b-6e7e-4776-adf0-c0823d76d31c.jpg\" data-caption=\"Images of Ivan Vladimirovich Putin, 10, surfaced on a Telegram channel with links to Russian spies and Kremlin insiders\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/7890572b-6e7e-4776-adf0-c0823d76d31c.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>3<\/p>\n<p>Images of Ivan Vladimirovich Putin, 10, surfaced on a Telegram channel with links to Russian spies and Kremlin insidersCredit: East2West<\/p>\n<p>His mum is Olympic gymnast Alina Kabaeva, 41, with him, below. <\/p>\n<p>She also has another son, Vladimir, four. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/who\/vladimir-putin\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Putin<\/a>, 72, has two adult daughters with his ex-wife and has never confirmed other children \u2014 but let slip he watches kids\u2019 films with \u201cmy little ones\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVChK-OGPU [channel] has obtained a photo of the most secret and probably the loneliest boy in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/russia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russia<\/a>,\u201d said a report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is Ivan Vladimirovich Putin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe hardly communicates with other children, spending all his time with guards, governesses, [and] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/teachers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">teachers<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The boy is said to resemble Putin in his Soviet childhood.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Until now, the children have never been seen and live out of sight behind his high-security palace walls.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo of Alina Kabaeva and a young boy, purportedly Vladimir Putin's son.\" height=\"960\" width=\"593\" data-credit=\"East2West\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2002d95a-7b90-41ee-a60d-e250c64a2403.jpg\" data-caption=\"The lad's mum is claimed to be Olympic gymnast Alina Kabaeva, 41 -  pictured with him, above\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2002d95a-7b90-41ee-a60d-e250c64a2403.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>3<\/p>\n<p>The lad&#8217;s mum is claimed to be Olympic gymnast Alina Kabaeva, 41 &#8211;  pictured with him, aboveCredit: East2WestRussia launches \u2018wailing\u2019 JET drone blitz on Ukraine in brutal end to Easter \u2018truce\u2019 as Zelensky demands full ceasefire<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Unlock even more award-winning articles as The Sun launches brand new membership programme \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/32897510\/sun-club-membership\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sun Club<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE first pics of Vladimir Putin\u2019s secret son have been leaked, say anti-Kremlin activists.\u00a0 Images of Ivan Vladimirovich&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2299,660,2301,12,332,184,118,333,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-42480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-global-politics","9":"tag-kremlin","10":"tag-moscow","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-section-newsworld-news","14":"tag-the-sun-newspaper","15":"tag-vladimir-putin","16":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114384509855440417","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}