- His body posture, facial expression, and movements have raised suspicions about his state of health.
The Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, has appeared in a video this Thursday with his defense minister, Sergei Shoigu, and his state of health has once again made the news after current images of the president came to light.
In the said video, the Russian president can be seen holding on to the table with one hand, with a rigid posture, without moving any joints, and with a tense expression.
These images have been collected from the meeting that took place between the Russian leader and the defense minister to discuss Russia's military strategy in Mariupol. In fact, Moscow announced on Thursday that it had taken control of this strategic city on the shores of the Sea of Azov, which serves as a corridor for its troops between the Crimean peninsula and Donbas.
Although Kyiv assures that the Russians still do not have total control of the city, some 2,000 soldiers along with several hundred civilian residents remain entrenched in the vast Azovstal steel complex.
These images have had a lot of repercussions circulating like wildfire on social networks, and the big question arises: how is Putin really doing?
Speculations about your state of health
Suspicions began to arise after the Russian leader did not make any public appearances for several days in early March, despite the war in Ukraine.
Everyone wondered: Where is Putin? The British media assured us that Putin is very secretive when it comes to his daily whereabouts. Normally the Kremlin is the place where the president spends the most time, where he carries out his official acts. But, although he has offices there, Putin does not live in the Kremlin.
Also, last March, retired Royal Navy Admiral Chris Parry said that President Putin may be battling cancer and suggested it could be this alleged medical condition that prompted the decision to go ahead with the investigation. war.
The question also arose from the appearance of his face, visibly swollen, as The Telegraph points out.
Another rumor was that the Russian president could suffer from Parkinson's, something that the Kremlin has denied.
In fact, this theory was shared last Sunday by a nurse on her social networks, a video of hers going viral in which she speculated on whether the Russian president had Parkinson's symptoms.
Another of the theories that were considered was that Vladimir Putin had moved his family to a high-tech, luxurious, and secret underground bunker in Siberia in which a nuclear war can be survived.
The speculations did not stop there. In early April, the Kremlin denied that Putin had undergone surgery related to thyroid cancer, as The Moscow Times reported on April 1.