An agent of the Russian secret service, who asked not to be quoted, would have told the British newspaper ‘Daily Mirror’ details of the State of health of President Vladimir Putin.
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According to the spy version, Putin, “has a form of cancer that progresses rapidly” and that therefore “He has no more than two or three years to stay alive”said the Federal Security Service (FSB) official, whose name is being withheld.
“They tell us that he has headaches and when he appears on television he needs papers for what he is going to say”said the source, in an article written by journalist Nigel Nelson, political editor of the ‘Mirror’.
However, this is not the first time that rumors have appeared about the state of health of Putin. With the war in Ukraine, the speculations and the various sources cited in the media grow more frequently.
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In early April, ‘Proekt’, a Russian independent media outlet, published an extensive investigation looking at records of Putin’s medical visits over the years.
According to the article, in recent months an expert surgeon in thyroid cancer has accompanied the president on numerous occasions, for which the media concluded that he could suffer from this disease.
WHEN DID THE RUMORS ABOUT PUTIN’S HEALTH START?
President Vladimir Putin’s personal life has generally been a mystery to the public. His health has also been a question mark.
But the rumors officially started in 2020 when Valery Solovei, a political analyst, quoted Kremlin sources as saying that Putin has thyroid cancer and Parkinson’s.
WHAT IS KNOWN ABOUT POSSIBLE CANCER?
The ‘Daily Mail’ assures that the affirmations that Putin suffers from cancer appear on the General SVR channel, Telegramwhich cites an important source inside the Kremlin.
“Russian President Vladimir Putin has oncology, and the latest problems identified during his last examination are associated with this disease”.
This person added: “He also suffers from Parkinson’s disease.”
WHAT DOES THE KREMILIN SAY?
According to the Moscow Times, journalist Alexei Venediktov wrote on his Telegram channel that he had asked Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov about this rumour. “Fiction and lies”, was the response of the spokesman.
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