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Vladimir Putin
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Is Putin really seriously ill and has there been a recent assassination attempt that he managed to get rid of? There is growing speculation about the Russian president’s health and resistance. What is known, he asks Deutsche Welle.
The war in Ukraine has been going on for more than three months and various observers are trying to predict its outcome. In this regard, various information related to the fate of the Russian president regularly appears.
Will Putin be sent to a sanatorium?
“He will leave in 2023 – probably in a sanatorium,” said Sir Richard Deerlaw, former head of British intelligence at MI6.
The head of Ukraine’s military intelligence, Kiril Budanov, also told Sky News that Putin was “in very poor mental and physical condition” and “very ill.” Former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, who headed MI6’s office in Russia, confirmed this hypothesis. According to his sources, Putin is seriously ill and had to leave official meetings regularly, which contributed to the “growing disorder in the Kremlin.”
There are a number of suspicions in the media that Putin suffers from various diseases such as Parkinson’s, dementia or cancer. Film director Oliver Stone, who has conducted a number of interviews with the Russian president, claims that Putin contracted cancer between 2015 and 2017. The British Times recently reported on an audio recording in which an unnamed Russian oligarch said Putin was suffering from blood cancer. There is no official confirmation from the Kremlin that Putin is ill or has undergone surgery.
Will Putin be overthrown because of the failures of the war?
Investigative journalist Hristo Grozev of Bellingcat also says that according to his sources, Putin is seriously ill. Grozev also said that senior security officials in the Kremlin believe that the war in Ukraine is “lost” and that Putin is losing control of the country’s leadership.
Not only Putin’s health problems, but also the development of the war could lead to his overthrow, said Richard Deerlav. He cites statements by a senior military official who criticized Russia’s military action in Ukraine on national air.
According to Deerlove, Russia’s elite will gradually realize what a catastrophe the country has been in, and Putin will step down by being sent to a medical facility that will be a “more elegant solution” to a coup. But who will inherit it? According to the former head of MI6, the probable choice is Nikolai Patrushev – currently Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
Rumors or something more?
Kirill Budanov claims that a coup attempt was unsuccessful in Russia two months ago. Gerhard Mangot, an expert on Russian affairs and a professor at the University of Innsbruck, doubts the veracity of this information. “Because there is no indication that such an attack could have taken place at all,” he said.
He warns that spreading such rumors – both about dissatisfaction with the regime and Putin’s health – could be part of an information war. Therefore, they should always be viewed with great caution. Including the photos and videos that seem to prove that Putin suffers from Parkinson’s disease. “I strongly doubt that this claim about Parkinson’s could be anything more than a rumor. Or maybe it’s more part of an information war,” said Professor Mangot.
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