Vladimir Putin is said to be suffering “severe pain in his head, blurred vision, and numbness of the tongue” as his inner circle has fresh concerns for his health.
The dictator also reported “partial loss of sensation in his right arm and leg” requiring urgent medical attention, according to General SVR Telegram channel, a Russian outlet which frequently makes claims about his ailing health.
Putin was given “first aid” and ordered by a “council of doctors” to take medication and “complete rest” for several days, alleged the channel which claims inside knowledge from the Kremlin.
However the Russian president reportedly refused to rest, and instead was given gloomy reports from the war.
His condition improved, easing concern among his large team of medics, said the post.
“The president's relatives were more worried,” it stated.
For them “such a sharp deterioration in Vladimir Putin's health caused a nervous reaction, more like panic”.
The channel has regularly claimed that Putin is terminally ill with cancer, and that his condition and drugs impacts on his decision-making during the war in Ukraine.
“Despite the oncology of the president and the negative forecasts of doctors, his close circle and family console themselves with optimism and hopes that everything will drag on, almost forever.
Later he again suffered headaches, it claimed.
“The temporary sharp deterioration in the president's health has already made those closest to him tense,” said General SVR.
“The sudden death of Putin will put them all in front of the unknown, or rather, on the brink of survival.”
It stated that “none of them even had a rough plan of action in this case”.
Rumours have spiralled about Putin’s health fuelled by his habit of gripping hard onto desks and making strangle twitching movements with his feet.
The Kremlin and his ministers insist he is in perfect health.
Pictures show him at the Russian Federal Medical and Biological Agency in Moscow last year where he witnessed open brain surgery.
