Cancer and murder. US intelligence on Putin’s situation

The American intelligence community has prepared a report on the health of the Russian ruler. The disease shook its power and reduced the threat of nuclear war, intelligence sources said.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin is being treated for a progressive type of cancer, Newsweek wrote, citing a new U.S. intelligence report.

In recent months, against the backdrop of Russia’s war against Ukraine, the media has repeatedly presented information about a possible deterioration in Putin’s health. Ukrainian intelligence is also reporting cancer.

Moscow denies Putin’s health problems, and urges military experts to consider “desire to aspire thinking” in the matter. Athletistic telling details.

“Putin is definitely sick”

A classified U.S. intelligence report, released in late May, said the aggressor’s president, Vladimir Putin, underwent treatment for advanced cancer in April, Newsweek magazine reported, citing three people familiar with document.

It was cited as Putin’s fourth health report, prepared for the White House (how long, not specified). An earlier document, prepared two weeks earlier, described him as “terminally ill.” The new report, according to the publication, records positive changes in Putin’s state of health.

Senior officials from three different intelligence services are concerned that Putin is becoming paranoid about his power and status, making the course in Ukraine unsustainable and unpredictable. However, according to them, this situation reduces the possibility of nuclear war.

“Putin’s power is strong, but not absolute. The fierce fighting within the Kremlin has never been more intense during his rule, everyone feels that the end is near,” one of the sources was quoted as saying. say, a senior intelligence officer with direct access to reports.

At the same time, all three sources – including a spokesman for the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence and a Pentagon intelligence official – warn that Putin’s isolation makes it difficult for U.S. intelligence agencies to accurately assess his health.

It was noted that the starting point for measuring Putin’s weakening of power was the appearance of a long table at meetings, both with world leaders and with his subordinates. This happened even before the whole invasion of Ukraine.

Then on April 21, at a meeting with Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, who had periodically disappeared from sight for weeks, Putin was already sitting at a short table, but bent over his chair and clinging to the table with his right hand.

In addition, the United States paid close attention to Putin’s speech on May 9. The notably slimy Russian leader then sat bent over and wrapped in a blanket.

By all accounts, Putin is ill and likely to die. It is likely that the isolation due to the coronavirus pandemic also hid the deterioration in his health, which only now showed more clearly.

However, it seems that, after the treatment, the Russian leader has improved. Newsweek said Putin began appearing more often in public at the end of May. However, in the new intelligence report, the assessment of Putin’s state of health as “dying” has not changed.

“Putin is definitely sick … Whether he will die soon is not known. We are not entirely sure. We should not rely only on data that proves the desired result. He is still dangerous, and if he dies, there will be chaos. We need to focus on that, “a source told Newsweek.

In addition, the report also suggests that Putin was assassinated in March. Prior to this report, the assassination attempt was just a rumor, now there is confirmation that Kremlin security officials have discovered an internal plot to assassinate Putin.

The CIA and foreign intelligence services regularly receive information about disagreements at the top of national security ministries, as well as about the desire of some Russian diplomats to become defectors in the West, says article.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov dismissed any suggestion of Putin’s illness in an interview last week.

“I don’t think a sober person would suspect any signs of illness or disease this year,” Lavrov said, referring to recent public statements by the Kremlin leader.

However, one Newsweek source said Lavrov’s insistence that everything was fine was “a kind of diagnosis that should be listened to.” The official noted that Putin is still struggling with challenges both in terms of health and leadership.

“That Putin is sick or dying is good for the world, not only because of Russia’s future or the end of the war in Ukraine, but also because of the reduction of the insane threat of nuclear war. A weak Putin is clear a the declining leader, not at the top of his career, – would have had less influence over his advisers and subordinates, say, if he had given orders to use nuclear weapons, ”the intelligence service believes.

But, as a senior U.S. Air Force officer cited in the publication, it is necessary to “remember the influence of wishful thinking.” “We have learned – or perhaps have not learned – this difficult lesson with Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein,” he added.

Remember that America’s elite, relying on intelligence, which eventually became suspicious, were sure that Hussein was a mad dictator with weapons of mass destruction. As you know, this has not happened. The situation is similar to bin Laden.

What else has been reported about Putin’s cancer

Against the backdrop of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the press repeatedly came out with information about the possible deterioration of Putin’s health.

In particular, in early April, the investigative publication Project wrote that the head of Russia is often visited by a doctor who specializes in surgical treatment of cancer. According to him, in Sochi alone, he flew with Putin at least 35 times.

Moreover, it was reported that Putin was followed everywhere by a team of several doctors specializing in various diseases, including oncology.

In late April, the British tabloid Sun published an article stating that Putin had cancer and was about to undergo surgery. And in May, New Lines Magazine received a recording of an oligarch near the Kremlin saying Putin had blood cancer.

In May, Kirill Budanov, head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, spoke about Putin’s incurable cancer and an unsuccessful attempt on his life in an interview with Sky News and then with Ukrainska Pravda.

Budanov said the GUR has its own network of resources about what is happening in Russia.

“We fully confirm this information (that Putin has cancer – ed.). He has several chronic diseases, one of which is cancer. But you should not expect that Putin will die tomorrow. He still has no. at least a few years. Whether it’s us or not, it’s true, “he told UP.

Former British intelligence officer, MI6 official Christopher Steele also stated that Putin was relatively seriously ill, but it was not clear what exactly.

The fact that the Russian leader who waged a war against Ukraine was suffering from cancer was also told by American director Oliver Stone, who had previously made a propaganda film about Putin.

Russia’s opposition leader Ilya Ponomarev said “there are many different signs that he actually has cancer,” but urged not to expect his imminent death.

On May 28, the British newspaper Mirror reported, citing a source in the Russian FSB, that Putin had “a severe form of rapid cancer progression” and that he had been “no more than two or three years old. to live.” He said he was going crazy.

“When he speaks on television, he needs everything he has to say written on paper in large letters. They are so large that only two sentences fit on each page,” the publication said.

It was also noted that Putin was suffering from headaches, tremors and “attacks of uncontrollable rage.” “He was completely insane and almost untrustworthy,” a newspaper source said.

The Daily Star newspaper writes, citing British MI6 intelligence sources, that Putin may be dead or about to die. And, if so, it will be replaced by a double.

A source in the publication said that Putin’s recent speeches may have been recorded earlier, and in public speeches, such as the parade on May 9, there could have been a double.

“Putin is seriously ill and when he dies, his death will be kept for weeks, if not months … There is also a possibility that he is already dead. It is impossible to know. He will feel bad, and he can do it. Kremlin. Now, “said a British intelligence source.

It was noted that Putin’s henchmen were extremely afraid that in the event of his death, a coup would begin in the Kremlin, and Russian generals would want to end the war against Ukraine.

“Putin’s death will make them helpless and vulnerable, so they have an interest in saying that Putin is alive, which in fact it could be the opposite,” the source added.

However, Russian sociologist Igor Eidman, who publicly adheres to a pro-Ukrainian position, believes that Putin’s “illness” was an operation of Russia’s special services.

“I think the purpose of such stuffing is to convince the opponents, especially the British and Americans, that it is pointless to conduct any serious special operations against Putin, because he will die or still lose power. .Like, the main thing is not for him to get angry while the patient is alive, don’t make a sudden move so that he doesn’t start a nuclear war, and then he will disappear and everything will be fine, ”he wrote on his Facebook page.

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