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Ryan Fahey

Puffy-faced Vladimir Putin struggles to stay awake as he looks exhausted during meeting

Vladimir Putin looked puffy-faced and exhausted as he tried to stay awake during a meeting with his top military official, a new video shows.

Putin - who is rumoured to be taking steroids as part of treatment for thyroid cancer - slumped over his desk and looked fatigued in a short clip of the meeting with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu yesterday.

The 69-year-old manages to utter an unenthusiastic congratulations to his troops - who he claims has "liberated" the pro-Russia eastern region of Luhansk of Ukraine.

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