It was talked about 100 days ago, at the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine: Vladimir Putin would have a tumor, or a terminal illnessand the disease would have accelerated his “revenge” against pro-European Ukraine.
There had been his disappearance for a few minutes from the event at the Moscow stadium, the absence from hockey matches, the awkward movements in the video with the Minister of Defense Shoigu, the blanket on his legs and coughing during the parade of the Last May 9, the strange swelling of the face. And, in general, the Russian propaganda machine that works incessantly to hide the weaknesses of the Kremlin and glorify the victories over the West: a mechanism that has led many media to write that there is a desperate attempt underway to conceal the real state of health. of the Russian leader.
Now the thesis of the “serious illness” that would worry Putin returns: why?
The news reappeared “exclusively” on the weekly Newsweek who, citing a confidential report by the American secret services delivered at the end of May, wrote: “Vladimir Putin is ill with cancer and underwent some treatment in April», Also recalling that the Russian president had escaped an attack in March and that« Putin’s hold on the government is no longer absolute. Maneuvers inside the Kremlin have never been so intense in the last twenty years; everyone has the feeling that the end is near ”. However, the condition of isolation of the Russian leader, the report explains, makes it more difficult for intelligence to accurately assess his health.
Then came the Ukrainian news agency UNIAN which, quoting the Israeli journalist Mark Kotlyarsky, went into more detail. Putin allegedly suffers from pancreatic cancer – and not thyroid cancer as was hypothesized in April by the Russian newspaper Proekt, denied by the Kremlin – and is reportedly preparing for surgery at the NN Blokhin National Cancer Research Center in Moscow, the best public cancer treatment clinic. Kotlyarsky’s sources were specified by the journalist himself: they would be Muscovite doctors and Kremlin officials.
Already a few weeks ago, former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele said that Putin had interrupted meetings of his security council to receive “some sort of medical treatment”.
Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Lavrov, interviewed by French TV Tfl he insistently said that “it would not be possible for anyone in their right mind to see in this person (Putined) of the signs of illness or any disorder“. In short: as the US intelligence report explains, we know that “there is an iceberg on the horizon, but it is shrouded in fog”. \
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Source: Vanity Fair
