“Putin suffering from cancer, was operated on in April”: the Newsweek revelation

The health of Russian President Vladimir Putin is continuously monitored by Western intelligence agencies, which regularly produce analysis reports on the subject. The fourth and most recent “assessment” of US intelligence would contain, according to the American weekly Newsweek, two relevant news. The first: Putin allegedly underwent cancer surgery last April because he was suffering from an advanced stage of cancer. The second is the confirmation of the fact that there would have been an attempt to assassinate him in March, a circumstance that Ukrainian military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov had already mentioned.

Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, various rumors have circulated about the state of health of the head of the Kremlin, and a few days ago the Russian Foreign Minister, Serghej Lavrov, also spoke about it, interviewed by French TV, denying the rumors about a his alleged illness: “I don’t think anyone in their right mind can see in this person (Putin) any signs of illness or any ailment.”

Newsweek cites three sources from three different American agencies: the National Intelligence Directorate, the Air Force, and the Defense Intelligence Agency. All would confirm Putin’s illness and the fact that the president is increasingly “isolated”. In the Kremlin, writes Newsweek, “feeling the end approaching, the power struggle has never been so intense”, an uncertainty that weighs on the war and on the fate of Ukraine.