Vladimir Putin

It went on: “The Russian President Vladimir Putin has oncology, and the latest problems identified during [his latest] examination are associated with this ...

The Kremlin has always strongly denied Putin has medical problems and portrays him in robust health, even during several mysterious absences in recent years. "Putin was recommended to undergo surgery, the date of which is being discussed and agreed,” said a report from the outlet which claims to be privy to insider Kremlin information. It went on: “The Russian President Vladimir Putin has oncology, and the latest problems identified during [his latest] examination are associated with this disease.”

Vladimir Putin is set to transfer power to fearsome ally and head of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev as he undergoes cancer surgery.

and the rights of children. He began to speak in a more flat, less animated sort of way. 'He began to drag his feet and shuffle. The condition hampers muscle control and impairs mobility. He told the Smithsonian Channel in 2014 that symptoms of shaking in his left hand were 'for a time' cured after he was injured by the bomb that went off in the 1944 attempt on his life. But a telling part of the footage was cut from the final version and was supposed to have been destroyed. The clip, which was filmed just before Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February, showed him gripping a chair and pressing his hand to his chest to stop it shaking as he greeted Alexander Lukashenko. 'And although Putin did not give his consent in principle and the date of the operation was not agreed, he hurried to explain himself and get Patrushev's reaction and agreement.' Putin was 'unlikely to agree to transfer power' but was ready to put in place a 'charge d'affaires' to control Russia and the war effort. In another post, the outlet said: 'We know that Putin made it clear to Patrushev that he considers him almost the only truly trusted person and friend in the system of power. The outlet said the choice of spymaster Patrushev - which came after a two-hour 'heart to heart' with Putin - was the 'worst option'. Vladimir Putin may be forced to give up control of the war in Ukraine for days as he is set for cancer surgery, a 'Kremlin insider' has claimed.

Vladimir Putin has secretly nominated Nikolai Patrushev, a former KGB counterintelligence officer who once headed the FSB, to take “control” of Russia while ...

“And although Putin did not give his consent in principle and the date of the operation was not agreed, he hurried to explain himself and get Patrushev's reaction and agreement.” The outlet said the choice of spymaster Patrushev - which came after a two-hour “heart to heart” with Putin - was the “worst option”. Putin was “unlikely to agree to transfer power” but was ready to put in place a “charge d’affaires” to control Russia and the war effort. “So, while Putin has the operation and comes to his senses…likely two or three days…the actual control of the country passes only to [Nikolai] Patrushev.” The latter is defined as “a mental health disorder that is marked by a combination of schizophrenia symptoms, such as hallucinations or delusions, and mood disorder symptoms, such as depression or mania”. "Putin was recommended to undergo surgery, the date of which is being discussed and agreed,” said a report from the outlet which claims to be privy to insider Kremlin information.

There is reportedly growing discontent amongst sections of Russia's elite, especially amongst the oligarchs who have seen their fortunes obliterated by the ...

They want their children to have everything and be able to travel to the most beautiful places.” “Everyone will continue working right up to the next Hague tribunal,” One source said: “They all want to have a normal life. Speaking to LBC he said Putin had “failed” most of his objectives in the war so far, but added: “I would not be surprised . . . that he is probably going to declare on May Day that ‘we are now at war with the world’s Nazis and we need to mass mobilise the Russian people’.” “People in the army are seeking payback for failures of the past, and they want to go further in Ukraine.” They don’t need war.

The Russian dictator will reportedly nominate hardline Security Council secretary and ex-FSB head Nikolai Patrushev to take control rather than the prime ...

They continued: “So, while Putin has the operation and comes to his senses…likely two or three days…the actual control of the country passes only to [Nikolai] Patrushev.” Putin was recommended to undergo surgery, the date of which is being discussed and agreed,” the outlet stated. Vladimir Putin may be forced to give up control of the war in Ukraine for “days” as he is reportedly to have cancer surgery, The Daily Mail reports on Saturday, April 30.

There is even growing speculation that his personal decision to go to war with Ukraine was as a result of being terminally ill. For Vladimir Putin it became ...

There is even growing speculation that his personal decision to go to war with Ukraine was as a result of being terminally ill. Add to this the remarkable plot twist of Russian military incompetence and Ukrainian battlefield success and you get moral and narrative arcs which suggest there might be a happy and safe ending for the world after all. More and more reliant on a narrowing circle of hardline advisors, Putin has dismissed attempts by other officials to warn him of the devastating economic and political cost of the “special military operation”. Many insiders are concerned that Putin’s commitment to continue the invasion will doom Russia to years of isolation and heightened tension that will leave the economy crippled, its security compromised and its global influence gutted. Recent evidence indicates that people taking immune-suppressing medication, such as cancer patients or those with chronic conditions, are known to be at risk of catching a severe case of Covid. Many are speculating that this was behind Putin’s decision to sit at an absurdly long desk, metres away from foreign leaders and even his own colleagues. Now, all we have is a pastiche of Soviet gerontocracy, with Putin nodding perfunctorily, offering a grunt through his botoxed jowls to Shoigu, ordering him to seal off Ukraine’s Azovstal steel plant so that “not a fly should be able to pass through”. For Vladimir Putin it became a matter of now or never.

Putin has secretly nominated Nikolai Patrushev, a former KGB counterintelligence officer who once headed the FSB, to take “control” of Russia while he is ...

Clinging to the table with his hands is a way to hide a small but quite noticeable tremor.” “So, while Putin has the operation and comes to his senses…likely two or three days…the actual control of the country passes only to [Nikolai] Patrushev.” Recent investigative reports by exiled Russian journalists have suggested Putin has thyroid cancer, and indicated he is constantly surrounded by a team of top doctors. “The doctor who recommended this medicine has been removed from the treatment process and is being tested. “He will have surgery and while he is incapacitated." “There seems to be no particular urgency, but it cannot be delayed either.”

Vladimir Putin is poised to announce an all-out war on Ukraine, months after barring Russian media from referring to his nation's invasion as a “war”.

Russia is also a member of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) that includes several other former Soviet nations. Mobilisation would mean Russia will need to call up reservists and keep conscripts beyond their one-year term, a politically fraught decision. He questioned why Russia had yet to turn Ukraine’s airfields into “lunar craters”. “This smells of further desperation,” he said, adding that the appointment could be a “precursor move” to Putin calling for a declaration of war on May 9. After reeling off a list of Moscow’s failures - from the sinking of the flagship of its Black Sea fleet to “acts of sabotage” against infrastructure within Russia - he asked: “What else has to happen before the dwarves in the Kremlin realise they are in an all-out, harsh war and start to act accordingly?” “The military are outraged that the blitz on Kyiv has failed,” a source close to Russian military officials told The Telegraph.

A week after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine, Oleg Yakovlev opened a flight booking website, frantically looking for any ...

"It's a big decision to move anywhere but we had to... "My initial idea was to go back to Russia by June because I have my mother there... it's all propaganda in the end." "Suddenly life became very difficult... when we came to Sri Lanka, we realised life continues somewhere in the world, and we were so happy," she said. but now I'm not going back to Russia because I'm not going to mess with the war," she said. "It was a night flight, and I opened the map and I was waiting to see when the plane crossed the Russian border and then I could finally sleep," she said. "Putin and his defenders say 'it's no problem that the US sanctions us, we have friends like China and India, these are the biggest countries in the world in terms of population'," he said. "The Russian people will always be able to distinguish true patriots from scum and traitors and will simply spit them out like an insect in their mouth, spit them onto the pavement," he said. Now we think they'll only support patriotic films including military movies... "I understood it was very dangerous to stay in Russia because I was in opposition to the political regime, which is why I decided to move away as fast as I could," he said. "In the last few years, the film market was growing in Russia, we were working with Netflix. But now Netflix has decided not to work in Russia anymore," she said.

For example, following at least five prior suicides, Vladislav Avayev, an immensely wealthy banker and government official, was found dead in his Moscow ...

In addition to returning to Stalin’s killing fields in Ukraine, Vlad the Poisoner, as he is sometimes secretly called in Russia, has returned to Stalin’s pattern of liternoye killings in Moscow, Spain and elsewhere to stop opposition to his increasingly bloody and mad scheme in Ukraine. The most prolific of the many deaths were accomplished in Paris in 1925-35 by a group of special assassins known as the Yasha Group. They posed as bakers, fish mongers and small business owners, but dealt death through bioweapons, poisons and faked suicides to many of Stalin’s enemies. Putin has already emulated Stalin in his invasion of Ukraine to “liberate” the country. A secret CIA study for the Warren Commission, declassified and released only in 1993, concluded that there were many apparently natural, staged deaths by the KGB in Western Europe, particularly of targeted Russian emigres. NKVD (the Soviet Union’s interior ministry) defector Walter Krivitsky, who killed many for Stalin and was himself murdered in a fake suicide, famously remarked that any fool could murder someone, but it takes a true artist to stage a “natural death” from disease or suicide. The Putin era has been marked with many such poisonings and murders of other political opponents and writers.

Major General Andrei Simonov, 55, was killed in battles in Izyum near Kharkov, the country's second city, according to Ukrainian sources.

Mr Putin has sent his chief of defence staff General Valery Gerasimov to take personal command of the Russian offensive in eastern Ukraine. More than 30 Russian armoured vehicles were reportedly destroyed. ladimir Putin has lost his ninth general of the war in Ukraine, according to reports.

The Russian president, 69, allegedly already delayed the operation which was scheduled for the second half of April. But his doctors have insisted on it ...

The warmonger is ‘unlikely to agree to transfer power’ but is prepared to set in motion a ‘charge d’affaires’ to control Russia and the war effort, they added. But his doctors have insisted on it happening ‘in the near future’ as ‘the course of the disease is progressing’, according to popular Telegram channel General SVR, which claims to have a well-placed source in Moscow. Vladimir Putin may be forced to hand over control of Russia as he disappears to have cancer surgery, a ‘Kremlin insider’ claims.

Vladimir Putin does not welcome speculation about his life away from the Kremlin, saying "those who with their snotty noses and erotic fantasies prowl into ...

Miss Russia 2003 is said to have charmed the president and was his alleged mistresses for a period. Putin is said to have hidden that he worked as a KGB spy for much of their three-year courtship and they married in July 1983. The couple had two daughters, Mariya, in April 1985, and Yekaterina, in August 1986, after they had moved to Germany when Putin was stationed as a Soviet spy. It must be respected." Now she has appeared in public again, posing alongside gymnasts with a "ring" finger on her right hand is visible, the finger the band is worn in Russia. Last month it was claimed Alina Kabaeva, 38, was hiding in a plush Swiss villa with her children that she is alleged to have fathered with Putin.

VLADIMIR PUTIN and his regime is becoming increasingly desperate in Ukraine, where it has struggled to make gains beyond the country's outskirts while ...

VLADIMIR PUTIN and his regime is becoming increasingly desperate in Ukraine, where it has struggled to make gains beyond the country's outskirts while facing international condemnation. Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, who has benefitted from Russian activity in his country, said the invasion was “a correction of history and restoration of balance which was lost in the world after the breakup of the Soviet Union”. Russia's invasion plans have not progressed smoothly since February, when Vladimir Putin's forces failed to take Ukraine in the few days planned. The North Korean government has blamed the west for the events in Ukraine, stating it was the result of "hegemonic policy". The country's media has platformed Putin and his officials since the invasion began, and Mr Vucic has boasted about his political ties with his Russian counterpart. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has stopped short of condemning the invasion, instead voicing his "deep anguish about the loss of life" and commitment to "contribute in any way towards peace efforts". Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, who has benefitted from Russian activity in his country, said the invasion was “a correction of history and restoration of balance which was lost in the world after the breakup of the Soviet Union”. He has regularly hosted the Russian premier in his home country since the war began, and the nations recently announced that they would economically align to take pressure off western sanctions. The North Korean government has blamed the west for the events in Ukraine, stating it was the result of "hegemonic policy". The country's media has platformed Putin and his officials since the invasion began, and Mr Vucic has boasted about his political ties with his Russian counterpart. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has stopped short of condemning the invasion, instead voicing his "deep anguish about the loss of life" and commitment to "contribute in any way towards peace efforts". He has regularly hosted the Russian premier in his home country since the war began, and the nations recently announced that they would economically align to take pressure off western sanctions.

Since Putin's invasion of Ukraine there has been at least five Kremlin linked officials who have all mysteriously died who were not “outspoken critics” of the ...

“These are people who are generally those who have been a part of the inner circle. Vladimir Putin is very “worried” there could be a coup as there are many “whispers and rumours of people who might potentially stop” the Russian President from his “inner circle.” Nico Hines, the world editor for the Daily Beast, told France24 that the oligarchs and Kremlin officials who were all mysteriously found dead along with their families, were not “outspoken critics” of Putin, but “generally those who have been a part of the inner circle.”

The first boy was born in secrecy in Switzerland amid huge security in 2015 and the second son was delivered in Moscow in 2019 with the same specialist ...

Pictured: A wrecked bus is seen as civilians are being evacuated along humanitarian corridors from the Ukrainian city of Mariupol Mariupol has seen some of the most intense fighting since Putin ordered his armies into Ukraine on February 24. Kadyrovtsy speaker (pictured in the centre) filmed a video in Mariupol last month and said: 'An order to destroy and purge Mariupol is fulfilled. Pictured: Service members of pro-Russian troops drive an armoured vehicle during Ukraine-Russia conflict on a road outside the southern port city of Mariupol One official said earlier this month that he feared as many as 20,000 people could have been killed. Pictured: A group of Chechen fighters have been seen on video wildly firing heavy machine guns towards residential buildings in Ukraine's besieged city of Mariupol Chechen troops have been embedded in the National Guard of Russia and have been fighting in Ukraine since the start of the invasion. They just shot them.' There they just killed people through binoculars for example. The paper reported: 'Our source says clearly: "Alina's relationship with Putin existed. That would have been too dangerous for her".' Putin hands Kabaeva a bouquet of flowers on the day she received the 'For Merit to the Fatherland' order in 2005

Xi Jinping has made his choice. He is sticking with his 'best friend' Vladimir Putin, and no end of Russian atrocities or wishful thinking in the west is ...

When Zhang is not building wind turbines he is a member of China’s rubber stamp parliament and a related advisory body to the Communist party. As the CCP was becoming ever more complicit with Russian barbarity, reports emerged that the UK government is to allow the take-over by a Chinese state-backed company of Newport Wafer Fab, Britain’s biggest microchip factory. Beijing has, does and will continue to use trade, investment and market access as tools of coercion, and even before the Ukraine war, many western businesses were re-examining their supply chains and investments. But there is a wider lesson here – about the danger of over-dependence on any aggrieved dictator with imperialist dreams. He said the two sides will ‘promote a multi-polar world and democracy in international relations.’ In a nutshell, this explains the common way they see the world – their hunger for an international order that is safe for autocrats. There has been a chorus of western voices calling on China to act ‘responsibly’, exercise its influence with Putin, and generally live up to its supposed commitment to the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity. If he has any unease over Ukraine, it is because Russia’s incompetent armed forces so far have failed in their objectives and Putin has flaunted his thuggery to the world in a manner that can’t be easily glossed over. It is calculating that they will soon fray, along with western unity, and to this end has put considerable effort into trying to drive a wedge between Europe and America, and between European nations. The ability of Russia to ride out sanctions depends more than anything else on help from China’s energy giants, to whom Moscow is dangling offers of cheap gas and oil. The CCP has taken this toxic brew into universities and schools, with teachers required to attend lectures on how to ‘unify thoughts and correctly guide students’ understanding’ of the conflict. Their axis of autocracy presents a far-reaching challenge to western democracies, which the UK in particular is struggling to come to terms with. On Friday China’s foreign ministry spokesman accused Nato of messing up Europe and stirring up conflicts in the Asia-pacific region.

Vladimir Putin is reportedly seeking to “divide” the west as the world braces for the Kremlin boss' next move. Analysts believe both sides are preparing for ...

Specifically it worked “towards inhibition and [to] limit their decision-making” as they had to deal with Russia’s actions on the battlefield, and brace for the impact of choices off it. However, even amidst Russian efforts to weaken the west, the US and UK both recently announced new measures in support of Ukraine. The “energy weapon” of the gas and oil supplies that Russia holds over Europe has long been a significant sticking point in the ongoing war. Western leaders were said to be aware of his efforts to seek out political alliances that might help circumnavigate any sanctions, as they prepared for the further impact of any changes to oil and gas supply. He told NBC News : “Whether it’s trying to call in favours from [Hungarian President Victor] Orban’s government, trying to help Marine Le Pen win the election in France or the direct use of the energy weapon in Poland and Bulgaria to try to get ahead of sanctions, Vladimir Putin is reading the tea leaves and sees that the West is trying to cut off oil and gas, and if he moves first he might be able to divide us.” This was viewed not only as a threat to the countries who would help and support Ukraine but a warning to the west about what could come next.

The home secretary and the prime minister were briefed by MI5 officials on 'high alert' last night after spies were told Putin is set to send an army of ...

The news emerged as Russia is set to unleash a mass of 'troll farms' in a striking disinformation campaign against the UK. Britain's domestic counter-intelligence agency is reportedly on 'high alert' amid the fears of Russian agents set to infiltrate the UK. Putin will send ‘army of saboteurs’ to disrupt UK and swing opinion against war in Ukraine after reports of new Kremlin disinformation campaign, Home Secretary and PM warned by MI5

Andrei Molodkin, a Russian conceptual artist, has created an eight-metre glass portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin that is made with 850grams of ...

She said her husband told her “everyone is scared” in Ukraine and resent not being able to join the EU earlier. More than 12.7 million people have fled, both internally in Ukraine and abroad. A former Soviet soldier-turned artist has used the blood of Ukrainian soldiers to create a glass portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin to show the world the Kremlin leader is a “bloody criminal”.