Vladimir Putin is seriously ill and it is affecting his decision-making in Ukraine, an ex-Brit spy has claimed.
Christopher Steele, who ran the Russia desk at MI6 in London between 2006 and 2009 and worked there in the 1990s, said he had heard the president was not well.
On February 24, Russia launched a large-scale invasion of Ukraine, marking a steep escalation of the Ukraine war which began in 2014.
