Russian President Vladimir Putin has been given just three years to live by doctors, it has been claimed.
A growing number of unconfirmed reports alleged that the 69-year-old president has cancer and that his health is rapidly deteriorating.
And now an FSB official has claimed Putin has “no more than two to three years to live”, adding the Russian president has “a severe form of rapidly growing cancer”.
Messages sent from an unidentified Russian spy to FSB defector Boris Karpichkov also said Putin was losing his sight and suffering from a headache.
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(Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin pool photo via Associated Press)
“We have been told that he is suffering from a headache and that when he appears on TV he needs a piece of paper written in capital letters to read what he is about to say,” the Russian official said. sunday mirror,
“They’re so big that each page can only hold a few sentences. Their vision is seriously deteriorating.”
The spy said Putin’s limbs “still trembled uncontrollably”.
Previous footage from earlier this year showed him shaking hands while he was also seen holding a table for support during a meeting broadcast in April.
The whispers about his health appear to have originated from the hugely popular Russian Telegram channel General SVR.
It claimed that Mr Putin’s doctors have warned him that the surgery could leave him incapacitated for a “short time”, and during this period the president would hand over the reins of power to an aide.
Former UK intelligence official Christopher Steele said as concerns for his health grew, the Russian leader skipped meetings for medical treatment.
It is claimed that Putin is not able to control his anger and often experiences “outbursts of uncontrolled anger”.
( Associated Press)
“Security Council meetings that reportedly last a full hour are actually divided into several sections,” said Mr Steele, who wrote a dossier on Donald Trump and Moscow’s alleged interference in the 2016 US election. LBC Radio,
“He is constantly moving from place to place with a team of doctors.”
And earlier this month an oligarch with close ties to Mr Putin was recorded allegedly saying he was “very ill with blood cancer”.
The unnamed Russian alleged in the recording that the president had surgery on his back shortly before ordering an invasion of Ukraine on February 24, according to the US-based new lines magazine.
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