Ukraine intelligence reports ‘fully confirm’ Putin has cancer

• Ukraine’s Head of Military Intelligence, Major General Kyrylo Budanov, confirmed that Russian President Vladimir Putin has cancer, among other illnesses.
• Budanov clarified, however, that Putin “still has at least a few years left.”
• Putin’s health and state of mind have been repeatedly scrutinized following his order to invade Ukraine.

Ukrainian intelligence reports have reportedly confirmed that Russian President Vladimir Putin has cancer, among other illnesses.

In an interview with Sky News earlier this month, Major General Kyrylo Budanov, Ukraine’s Head of Military Intelligence, told Dominic Waghorn, “We can confirm that Putin is in very bad psychological and physical condition. He is very sick. He has various illnesses at the same time, one of which is cancer.”

More recently, the major general told Ukrainian news outlet Pravda, “Yes, we fully confirm this information, that Putin has cancer. He has several serious illnesses, one of which is cancer.”

However, he clarified that the Russian president “still has at least a few years left.”

“It’s not worth hoping that Putin will die tomorrow,” he remarked. “Whether we like it or not, that’s the truth.”

Budanov also claimed that there was an unsuccessful assassination attempt against Putin about two months ago, just as Russia’s invasion started. “This is nonpublic information. Absolutely unsuccessful attempt, but it really took place,” he stated.

Western authorities are still skeptical of the assassination claim, however.

Questions about Putin’s health and state of mind circulated following his order to invade Ukraine.

Former MI6 operative Christopher Steele claimed that government meetings had to be broken into sections since Putin needed regular breaks to seek medical treatment.

Steele told talk radio station LBC that the Kremlin is experiencing “increasing disarray” since “the structures of command and so on are not functioning as they should.” He continued, “There’s no clear political leadership coming from Putin, who is increasingly ill” and “constantly accompanied around the place by a team of doctors.”

The “chaos” is “certainly having a very serious impact on the governance of Russia at the moment,” he added.

Putin’s health was further scrutinized after a video from February showed him “shaking uncontrollably” during a meeting with Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko. A separate report from a Russian investigative journalism group also stated that a cancer surgeon visited Putin dozens of times over four years.

Back in November 2020, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov rejected claims that Putin was looking to resign because he had Parkinson’s disease. Peskov called the claims “nonsense” and said that “everything is fine with the president.”

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine started three months ago but Putin’s troops have yet to make major gains. Nearly 30,000 Russian soldiers have lost their lives during that time, according to Ukrainian authorities.

Source: Yahoo! News