PUTIN IS ON HIS DEATHBED!
Kremlin kingpin losing secret war with cancer and ruthless enemies
RAVAGED by cancer, dying Russian dictator Vladimir Putin was at his weakest when the bloodthirsty leader of his handpicked Wagner mercenary group mercilessly turned on him and came within 100 miles of taking down his government!
International military sources exclusively tell The National ENQUIRER the mercenary’s armed revolt was specifically launched to expose Putin’s vulnerability and send a message to the Russian people their country is virtually rudderless!
“The Wagner Group waited until Putin was exposed as a sick and ineffectual man incapable of controlling his own military in a time of war!” reveals a well-placed international terror source.
“Now he is more vulnerable than ever and ready to be toppled by his people and the many enemies he has within the Russian government.”
The shocking coup involved a reported 25,000 warhardened soldiers attached to the notorious Wagner Group, led by reputed Russian mobster — and former Putin confidant — Yevgeny Prigozhin.
Prigozhin’s ruthless army of paid killers and convicts has racked up nearly ALL of Russia’s victories in the Ukraine invasion while Putin’s struggling, disheartened regular Army soldiers continue to lose battle after battle — or just surrender outright!
Prigozhin, 62, has bitterly attacked Putin, 70, and his hapless Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu for their military ineptitude and inadequate delivery of supplies to his ferocious band of killers.
Before the stunning uprising, Prigozhin blasted the defense minister and Putin with expletive-ridden insults for months, accusing them of failing to provide his men with enough ammo during the hellish battle for the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, the w war’s longest and bl bloodiest siege. “W “We started our march because of an injustice,” Prigozhin ranted after targeting Moscow.
But his rebellion abruptly ended when Prigozhin suddenly turned his men around and headed to neighboring Belarus.
That country’s President Aleksandr Lukashenko brokered a deal for Prigozhin and his mutinous mercenaries to be “pardoned” by the ailing Russian president, who weakly accepted the
arrangement from a hidden hospital bed.
“The message has been sent,” declares another international intelligence expert. “Putin is ripe for the plucking — and they didn’t have to kill any Russian citizens to send it.”
One highly placed military expert with close knowledge of the situation says Prigozhin’s unexpected U-turn was masterful strategy because he showed his strength but not his limitations.
“He knew the Russian Air Force would take out his forces before they got to Moscow,” explains retired U.S. Army Major General Paul Vallely. y.
Another source adds, “Prigozhin made it clear that he could thrust into Russia’s heartland with virtually no resistance, deeply humiliating Putin and exposing the dictator and his defense ministry’s weaknesses to the Russian people.”
Sources now say the 23-year reign of the Russian strongman is “deeply compromised” and his repu reputation as an ironfisted leader has been left in tatters.
While most insiders believe Putin is privately plotting to ignore th the amnesty agr agreement and take o out Prigozhin, the insurrection has left him looking vulnerable to the vultures surrounding him in the Kremlin.
“The risk of a collapsed Russia is not insignificant,” observes Alicia Kearns, chair of the U.K.’s Foreign Affairs Select Committee.
She notes oligarchs and military rivals in the defense ministry see an opportunity to make their own moves on the weakened leader.
“This is a really dangerous inflection point,” says Kearns.
“We don’t know how far Putin will go to keep power, but let’s consider it to be significant. If he’s successful, we will see purges, I think, like we have never seen before.”
She also warns “what could come next could be a lot worse.”