the ears look different. It does look to me like two different, but I’m still confused. Here’s a really detailed one- recent Putin. The older Putin has a vertical crease at the top of the nose. Something like that doesn’t seem to go away. I see the right side of his nose seems puffier, but looks like that on all pics maybe?

when I showed someone the two pics, they said it was plastic surgery. ok, that might be fair BUT it doesn't change the earlobes and when I saw this pic you just posted? my brain said right away that's the 'old' Putin and not the one we're seeing now. yah, to me they look like two entirely different people... but the way I'm innerstanding it from Drops of Jupiter is that they come from different timelines so they've technically lived two different lives...like twins living separately look a bit different but my mind has recently been blown so IDK 😅