Since the start of the military operation in Ukraine in February last year, rumors about the health of Russian President Vladimir Putin have not subsided, especially since several Ukrainian officials previously confirmed Mr. Kremlin’s illness.
But what was new this time around was a leaked email from a Kremlin insider that said the Russian president had Parkinson’s disease.
His body is laced with painkillers… and there’s evidence
She also claimed that Putin’s body was laced with pain-relieving steroids and that he had early-stage pancreatic and prostate cancer.
According to a report in The Sun newspaper, leaked reports from a Russian intelligence source also suggested that the 70-year-old man actually had cancer and Parkinson’s disease.
And she added that all kinds of heavy steroids were regularly injected into the body of the President of Russia, along with innovative painkillers, to stop the spread of pancreatic cancer, which was recently diagnosed with it.
She noted that this does not cause severe pain, but the effect of the treatment is limited to swelling of the face, as well as memory lapses.
But she pointed out that Putin’s relatives were concerned about the coughing fits, persistent nausea and lack of appetite he suffered after undergoing a medical examination, in addition to being thin, as the president is said to have lost 18 pounds in recent months.
The Kremlin denied many of the rumors.
It is noteworthy that in recent months there have been many Ukrainian statements about the illness of the Russian president.
One of them said that the Kremlin host is in “a very difficult psychological and physical condition, he has cancer and is very ill.”
And in June last year, Newsweek reported, citing US intelligence sources, that Putin had been treated for advanced cancer in April.
Also in early April, the Russian investigative journalism website The Project reported that Putin was seriously ill and was receiving regular visits from a well-known Russian oncologist.
On the other hand, the Kremlin has repeatedly denied these rumors. As Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at the end of May: “I don’t think any reasonable person would see signs of sickness or injury in Putin!”
