Speculation about Vladimir Putin’s declining health continues. This time, the rumors are fueled in part by an oligarch close to the Kremlin. In a recording made without his knowledge and consulted by the American magazine News Lines, this member of the entourage of the Russian president, whose identity is unknown, assures that the latter would be “very sick”, and would suffer from “blood cancer”.
According to him, Vladimir Putin would have even undergone surgery on the back because of this pathology. And this, shortly before ordering the invasion of Ukraine. An intervention on the sly, which echoes other common palace noises in recent days.
According to The New York Post, an anti-Kremlin Telegram account claims that Vladimir Putin had “fluid removed from his abdomen” during a visit to the operating theater in mid-May. Interventions that the Kremlin has never confirmed.
Parkinson’s disease, thyroid cancer, paranoid disorders… Rumors about the health of Vladimir Putin are not new. They are even multiplying on the Internet as Russia continues its offensive in eastern Ukraine.
In March, on the BBC, a former British foreign secretary, had speculated that the Kremlin master might be “addicted to steroids”. And recently, the Russian president had appeared in a video clinging to a table during a meeting with his Minister of Defense, fueling, voluntarily or not, speculation.
