A former spy of Committee for State Security of Russia (also know as KGB) assured during an interview with the British newspaper “The Sun” that Vladimir PutinPresident of Russia, suffers from dementia in “early stage” and Parkinson, .
Although the Russian president’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, insisted that Putin’s health is “excellent”, his most recent public appearances due to the invasion of Ukraine have sparked rumors about his state of health.
“I am not a doctor myself, but there is great concern that Putin is suffering from numerous physical health conditions, possibly due to sports injuries during his youth. This is in addition to some problems that affect older people, such as dementia in the early stages,” former Russian agent Boris Karpichkov, 62, told “The Sun.”
“But he is well known in his inner circle as a person who ‘forgets nothing’ and remembers details of many people he met. Another potential problem could be, judging by how he moves, that Putin may be suffering from the early stages of Parkinson’s disease or another serious disorder caused by some form of cancer.a brain tumor, for example,” he said in the interview.
Boris Karpichkov also told the newspaper that members of Putin’s inner circle would not be informed about his state of health to protect his image from “strong man”.
The Russian defector, who currently lives in the UK, said Vladimir Putin sees everyone as “traitors” and that his health is a “particularly sensitive issue”. “He is, or at least acts, crazy and obsessed with paranoid ideas,” he told The Sun Online.
“He sees literally everyone, including those within the Russian security services and even within his inner circle, as ‘traitors’. He is so suspicious and obsessed with his paranoid ideas that now he can be compared to Stalin’s tyrant”, assured Karpichkov.
Kremlin insiders have always denied that there is anything wrong with Putin, who will turn 70 in October; however, during his last speech, threatening West with nuclear weaponsThe president seemed confused and out of breath as he spoke, according to The Sun.
Last week, during talks with his defense minister, Sergey Shoigu, the Russian president was filmed clutching the table and hunching over, sparking further rumors that he may be suffering from Parkinson’s.
On the other hand, Professor Erik Bucy, a body language expert at the Texas Tech University, told The Sun Online upon viewing the video: “This is a staggeringly weakened Putin compared to the man we watched a few years ago. An able-bodied president would not need to support himself with an outstretched hand for leverage and he would not be concerned with keeping both feet on the ground.”
In addition, he noted that Vladimir Putin’s hands were shaking violently in a video showing him greeting Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko at the Kremlin.
According to the British media, some experts have also pointed out that Putin looks “swollen” and “weakened” and have even pointed out that consulted a doctor specializing in thyroid cancer.