Bizarre rituals to summon spirits across Russia to support Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine

Photos posted show traditional rituals held across Russia by shamans "to achieve victory over all enemies of Great Shining Russia" to support the Vladimir Putin's war

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Russia: Shamans Hold Rituals for Putin's War

Bizarre rituals performed by shamans have taken place across Russia in support of Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine.

The rituals to summon underworld spirits came days after Putin himself reportedly consulted shamans as he made key wartime decisions, including whether to use nuclear weapons.

Shamans are generally believed to have the ability to heal, communicate with the other world, and are known as the traditional fortune tellers of good and evil in Siberia.

Photos of the ritual show shamans raising and strengthening the spirit of warriors, "to gain victory over all enemies of Great Shining Russia".

Supreme shaman Kara-ool Dopchun-ool, 74, made appeals during ancient religious ceremonies to support the "protection of our land, our people, our homeland" in the war with Ukraine.

It is rumored that Putin and other members of the Russian elite pay attention to rituals (

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Reports indicate that shamans from various cities in the country: Vladivostok, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk, St. Petersburg and Sochi, Tuva and Khakassia obeyed his call to support the troops in Putin's war.< /p>

The supreme shaman, once a former fur trader, says the rituals echo his grandfather who was ordered by a former Kremlin dictator, Josef Stalin, to "perform a ritual on Stalingrad and help win the battle" against the Nazis.< /p>

The chief shaman says he was elected chief after "mass shamanic hypnosis".