Former MI6 leader Christopher Steele has stated several times during the war in Ukraine that he has sources that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is seriously ill.
according to The Guardian Steele has now told the BBC that Putin is finished when the West’s sanctions against Russia have a real effect.
“I can not see that he is still president of Russia in three to six months,” Steele said The Guardian.
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He points out that both the British and the Americans have sources that Putin’s health is failing, and that he will soon no longer have the capacity to do his job.
Throughout the war, there have been rumors about Putin’s health. Strange behavior at several public sessions has sparked speculation about whether the president is seriously ill.
His own spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, has even been out and about denied allegations that Putin is ill with cancer.
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Steele claimed in May that Putin constantly has medical personnel with himand that he leaves meetings for treatment.
The head of the Ukrainian intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, said last week in May that he believes that Putin is both seriously ill and that he survived a recent coup attempt.
Steele headed the British intelligence service MI6 from 2006 to 2009. In the 1990s, he was stationed in Russia. Steele is also behind it controversial intelligence report who claimed that Russia was trying to bribe Donald Trump with compromising images. According to the controversial report, the photos allegedly showed Trump with prostitutes while peeing on each other in a hotel room.
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Doubting revolution
Putin has been in power in Russia since December 31, 1999 after Boris Yeltsin surprisingly resigned.
Since then, he has been the country’s most powerful man – as president until 2008, between 2008 and 2012 he was prime minister, before he has been Russia’s president for the last 10 years.
The Russian host, Olga Skabajeva, believes that the time has come to change the name of what the Russians call a “special operation”. Video: AP / Reuters / Twitter. Reporter: Magnus Paus / Dagbladet TV & Siri Åbø Wiersen / Dagbladet
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Before entering politics, the now 69-year-old president had a long career in the infamous Soviet KGB intelligence service, which was disbanded in 1991. Putin resigned from the KGB the same year. He resigned as a protest against the coup against President Mikhail Gorbachev.
The KGB was disbanded shortly after. The successor FSB is led by Putin’s longtime friend from the KGB, Aleksandr Bortnikov, which has been launched as a possible Putin replacement.
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Dagbladet spoke this spring with Russia researcher at the Norwegian Institute of Foreign Policy, Jakub M. Godzimirski, about sspeculation about a possible coup against Putin.
He was aware that a Russia without Putin would probably not bring about major changes, and that there are no alternative centers of power in the circle around Putin.
– I doubt that we will have a revolution in Russian politics, Godzimirski stated.
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