DESPOT PUTIN IS ’TERMINALLY ILL’
Secret recording hints at ‘blood cancer’ fight
A LEAKED conversation between a Russian oligarch close to the Kremlin and a contact in the West suggests Vladimir Putin is terminally ill.
In the secretly taped recording obtained by New Lines magazine, the unidentified oligarch, a close confidante of Putin, describes the Russian president as being “very ill with blood cancer”.
The revelation comes after months of speculation about the tyrant’s health following the invasion of Ukraine in February.
His face has become visibly puffy compared to what it was last year, which some experts say is the result of steroids being taken for a serious illness.
Putin’s hardman gait has also changed radically.
On Wednesday, the 69-yearold missed an annual ice hockey match in Moscow in which he normally plays the starring role.
Most noticeably, recent footage inside the Kremlin shows him with severely shaking hands and clutching at the side of a table as though to steady himself.
At the start of the invasion, when Western leaders tried to persuade Putin to halt his brutal war, he sat apart from his visitors at the other end of a long table.
Insiders claim he is paranoid about picking up infections after self-isolation at the height of the pandemic. Ashley Grossman, a professor of endocrinology at Oxford University, told New Lines: “Putin has always been a very fit-looking man with a slightly gaunt appearance.
“But over the last couple of years, he seems to have filled out in the face and neck.
“Cushingoid appearance, it’s called, and it’s compatible with steroid use.”