Vladimir Putin 's health is “dramatically deteriorating”, according to a political scientist. Russian president's medical condition.
Valery Solovey, a former professor at Moscow prestigious Institute of International Relations [MGIMO], has long claimed the Kremlin leader has serious underlying illnesses.
Now he alleges that the Russian President's secret medical conditions have impacted on his judgment on the war.
The despot is tomorrow due to announce he is annexing parts of four regions of Ukraine in defiance of world opinion.
His move is seen as a way of escalating the war and is expected to trigger new Western sanctions.
But Solovey, 62, in an interview with exiled Zhivoi Gvozd radio - formerly the highly respected Echo Moscow, but closed by pro-Kremlin Gazprom Media early in the war - said Putin’s burst of recent activity as president did not mean he was healthy.
“It is a very strange idea that a gravely ill person cannot work and travel,” he said.
“Specially in such comfort, accompanied by such a number of doctors, and being serviced [according to] top standards of….world medicine.
“Everything is provided for him in that sense.”
He claimed: “As for his health, it is deteriorating, yes, dramatically, dramatically.”
Solovey - who claims to have sources inside Putin's circle - said: “All of the decisions made by him…on February 24 [start Russian invasion of Ukraine] and September 21 [start of mobilisation] are a direct consequence of his physiological status.
“Direct in the sense of physiological health and in terms of mental [health].”
He suggests that but for the supposed illnesses Putin would not have gone to war in Ukraine.
"Modern therapy, targeted therapy for oncological diseases, is of such quality that you will be working until literally the last few hours," he said.
He was asked about CIA director William Burns saying that Putin - far from being ill - was “too healthy”.
Solovey replied this was a “perfect example of Anglo-Saxon sarcasm” adding: “The Americans know what’s happening to [Putin].
“They know the real situation, and they are actually concerned because of it…”
He added: “When they say they see Putin’s statements not as bluff, he is in a condition in which this really is not bluffing.”
Recently Putin said he was not bluffing about using nuclear weapons if he felt provoked over Ukraine by the West.
Solovey, like Telegram channel General SVR, has claimed previously that Putin is suffering from serious illnesses including cancer, Parkinson’s disease and a schizoaffective disorder.
There have been Western claims about Putin’s health, notably from ex-MI6 head Sir Richard Dearlove, who said the Russian leader faces being sent to a sanatorium, and will be gone by 2023, due to medical issues.
A Russian independent media suggested he was permanently surrounded by top Russian medics including cancer specialists when he went on trips.
This comes as Putin’s brutal police are seen manhandling women protesters into cells-on-wheels after they protested in Tuva republic about mobilisation of the region’s men.
A total of 27 women were detained, with violence used against the mother of a newborn baby girl.
One video shows two police officers holding a pram with a baby girl.
Women yell: “Let her go! Are you humans? Let her go?”
The protest here is significant.
Tuva is the home region of the Russian defence minister.
