Putin’s £90m megayacht changes name to ‘Killer Whale’ and flees port near Nato countries after his nuclear threat
VLADIMIR Putin’s £90million megayacht has fled Kaliningrad after the dictator threatened to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine — and changed its name to “Killer Whale”.
The floating mansion, formerly called Graceful, was last seen headed for St Petersburg after leaving its port in the Russian province sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania.
Pictures show the 270ft ship has been renamed Kocatka, the Russian for killer whale.
It had been docked in the Kaliningrad Oblast since escaping sanctions by leaving a German shipyard days before the invasion of Ukraine by Mad Vlad in February.
The vessel is believed to have turned off its AIS transponders which means it cannot be tracked
Among luxuries on the yacht are a swimming pool that can be transformed into a dance floor and theatre, a grand piano and cocktail bar.
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Putin’s other yacht, the £500million Scheherazade, believed to have been a Christmas gift in 2014, is impounded in Italy and is now under the flag of Malaysia.
Meanwhile, Putin’s propaganda TV channel has shown a terrifying segment “in anticipation of nuclear conflict”.
The ominous sequence, which was aired by pro-Kremlin broadcaster NTV, showed nuke explosions and the "Armageddon" aftermath of the blasts.
NTV is owned by energy giant Gazprom, who last month released a video of Europe "freezing to death" without Russian gas in a bid to taunt Western powers.
