Russian President Vladimir Putin is reportedly suffering from thyroid cancer, according to a long-term investigation into the president’s health by Russian journalists from Project Media. “Putin is now accompanied by a large team of doctors, including surgeons who specialize in thyroid cancer,” Italian agency ANSA quoted the report as saying. The Kremlin has denied rumors of head cancer.
“This is a fabrication and a lie,” Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian media. He reminded that in Russia, Project Media was recognized as an unwanted organization at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office and was cancelled.
Ukrainian agency Unian points out from reports that the aging Putin, who will celebrate his 70th birthday in October, allegedly favors a rejuvenating “spa” based on traditional medicine from the Altai Mountains. This bathhouse was allegedly recommended to him by the current Minister of Defense, Sergei Shoigu. Although there is no convincing evidence of its usefulness, Putin is pleased, and the president’s example is said to be followed by other members of the Russian elite, including Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and gas giant Gazprom Alexei Miller.
Doubts about Putin’s health have been recurring and are now rising because of Putin’s order to invade Ukraine, which continued on the 37th day and has so far not given Russian troops much success, except perhaps the conquest of the Kherson region in the south.
Last month, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko dismissed speculation about Putin’s health in an interview with Japan’s TBS. According to him, the Russian president is “in better shape than before”.
Representatives of Western countries have stated several times that Putin has recalculated when he launched his attack on Ukraine. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the Russian president he was acting irrationally. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte called it “absolutely paranoid.”
Lukashenko rejects all these claims. “West and you must also get rid of this nonsense, this nonsense from your head,” the Belarusian president told representatives of Japanese media. “Putin is really fit, he is in better shape than before … He is a really healthy person mentally and physically, he is an athlete,” added Lukashenko.
The authoritative Belarusian leader has given the Russian army his country’s territory to attack Ukraine, but he is still reluctant to enter open war with Ukraine.
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