Vladimir Putin, 70, being kept alive to wage his war in Ukraine by foreign doctors, an expert has claimed.
This is despite all the Western sanctions that have been imposed on him, the Kremlin, and his regime.
According to a Russian expert, medics have been using the latest Western treatments to target the tyrant's cancer, and to stop its spread.
This is just one of many concerns that have been raised by war experts since the invasion on Ukraine began on February 24.
Now, it has been claimed that the 70-year-old is in his 'last year' of power, according to a Russian expert.
Valery Solovey, a Russian political scientist, told the Ukrainian media that he is "certain" that Putin is receiving therapy that is unavailable in Russia.
Mr Solovey told Ukrainian YouTube channel Odesa Film Studio: “I can say that without this [foreign] treatment he would definitely not have been in public life in the Russian Federation.
“This is absolutely certain.
“He uses the most advanced treatments, [and] target therapy which Russia cannot provide him with….
“I would say that the treatment has been too successful.
“They have been treating him too well.”
Despite the despot reportedly receiving this targeted treatment, Solovey says that “the end is already in sight, even according to the doctors who are curating this treatment, because no medication can be endlessly successful”.
His plan when he can go on no longer is to hand power to little-known Russian agriculture minister Dmitry Patrushev, 45.
Patrushev is the son of his trusted and powerful top security aide Nikolai Patrushev, 71, who is a virulently anti-Western former head of the FSB, and a key architect of the war in Ukraine.
Another possible successor is Alexei Dyumin, 50, a former Putin bodyguard and ex-deputy defence minister.
The pair met on Friday, 23 December, when they toured a major weapons plant in the Tula region, western Russia, where he is now governor.
Solovey, who is a former professor at Moscow’s prestigious Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) - a training school for spies and diplomats - has long claimed to have insider knowledge about Putin’s declining health.
While he has not disclosed where the “non-Russian doctors” allegedly treating Putin are from, the ailing Kremlin leader “trusts” them, Solovey says.
The treatment is also being overseen by top Moscow medics.
Previously, there have been claims that Putin has become dependent on life-saving medicines prescribed by Israeli medics, which are being purchased in Israel.
Solovey went on to tell the YouTube channel that “it is obvious that he has problems with movement - with legs - [which] many viewers have noticed.”
He initially suffered colon cancer which has spread “and is more dangerous now”, and the medication has led to early symptoms of Parkinson’s, he claimed.
“He has quite serious medical problems,” said Solovey.
“The most serious of them is oncology. So far he is kept ‘floating’ by the way treatment is curated by non-Russian doctors.
“The strategy and tactics of the treatment were defined by doctors who are out of Russia.
“They are the [doctors] who performed surgery on him in February 2020, soon after he was diagnosed with an oncology.”
However, the expert has warned that with Russia embroiled in a war, Putin’s choosing to treat his alleged condition may “have a direct impact on his situational awareness and the adequacy of the decisions he makes”.
However, the Kremlin have authorised this reported treatment to go ahead as the the security elite in Russia are confident that succession will go to Dmitry Patrushev, who will take over from Putin's aims.
Solovey went on to say: “They expect that the power will come into their hands anyway, as a result of a legal transition process.
“It will come to the Patrushev clan, Dmitry Patrushev, but in theory there is a chance they could ‘stimulate’ this process.”
The expert also told Russian opposition Khodorkovsky Live YouTube channel that 2023 will be Putin’s last year at the helm of Russia.
“Yes, it will,” he said.
“On top of that, it might happen as soon as the spring.”
He went on to add that if the despot fails to leave voluntarily, other people will act, saying: "Putin is now having his last chance, I would say.
“If he doesn’t make use of it, the elites will not only turn away from him for good…they will turn to action.”
Those who Putin “derives his support from” will act against him.
“If we are talking about a successor, that is just one person, only one person yet, and that is Dmitry Patrushev,” he said.
A cancellation of a trip to Nizhny Tagil, a city in the Sverdlovsk Oblas, last week - to visit a major tank plant - “might have been related to health issues” - or security concerns, the expert says.
“Usually when [trips] are cancelled there are two factors at play: matters of health and safety.
“I don’t know which one prevailed in this case.”
