Putin only has three years left
Vladimir Putin has been given a maximum of three years to live by doctors, according to a Russian intelligence source.
The FSB officer said the Russian president, 69, “has a severe form of rapidly progressing cancer”.
He added: “He has no more than two to three years to stay alive.”
The spy said the disease means Putin is also losing his sight. He revealed: “We are told he is suffering from headaches and when he appears on TV, he needs pieces of paper with everything written in huge letters to read what he’s going to say. His eyesight is seriously worsening. And his limbs are now also shaking uncontrollably.”
Last week Putin met Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko in Sochi and was caught on camera awkwardly twisting his feet while the pair sat down for talks.
The previous week he was also spotted making odd movements on TV amid reports he is suffering from Parkinson’s and MS on top of cancer.
Putin’s terminal prognosis emerged in a secret message from the Russian spy to FSB defector Boris Karpichkov, now hiding out from Putin’s assassins in Britain.
The spook also said the president is terrifying staff with abrupt mood changes.
The message added:
“He has outbursts of uncontrolled fury. And he trusts almost no one.”
Reports last week citing Kremlin sources claimed Putin had successful cancer surgery 14 days ago. Former MI6 Russia desk officer Christopher Steele said he is “constantly accompanied around the place by a team of doctors”.
It has got so bad that spymasters closest to Putin are actively talking about his successor. Favourites are Aleksey Dyumin, 49, governor of Tula, Astrakhan governor Igor Babushkin, 52, and agriculture minister Dmitry Patrushev, 44.