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Putin’s many ‘heart attacks’ and why the rumours may be in his favour

The Kremlin have been forced to deny the recent speculation that the ageing tyrant had suffered a cardiac arrest and collapsed in his bedroom

The Independent UK

Vladimir Putin grips table 'twisted from pain' in new footage as he threatens West

The footage shows Russian President Vladimir Putin gripping his desk at the Kremlin in Moscow amid fresh claims he is suffering from “intensified pain in his abdomen"

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin suffers relapse in health as Joe Biden visits Kyiv, Kremlin insiders say

The claim, which cannot be verified, comes from the Russian telegram channel General SVR which has repeatedly made claims that Vladimir Putin is suffering serious medical problems

Daily Mirror

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Vladimir Putin 'falls down stairs and soils himself' after claims he has cancer

Russian Telegram channel named General SVR has regularly claimed that Vladimir Putin is plagued by a number of health conditions, including cancer, despite the Kremlin's insistence that the despot is in good health

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin to make Russia a 'digital concentration camp' with QR code 'handcuffs'

Most Russians will be barred from leaving the country, as they were in Soviet times when they needed hated "exit visas" to go abroad, claimed Telegram channel General SVR.

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin 'stashes £12.3billion in African state' in case he needs to flee Moscow

It is claimed Russian despot Vladimir Putin has stashed a fortune in the Central African Republic and he plans to flee there if he is forced out of power in Moscow

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin moves awkwardly in Red Square as rivals quip 'old age is not a joy'

Vladimir Putin's public appearance came days after reports that an intelligence source close to the Kremlin had confirmed he is suffering from Parkinson's and pancreatic cancer

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Vladimir Putin seen 'in crippling pain' as new signs fuel fresh cancer claim

A new post on the Telegram channel General SVR claims that the Russian President has been complaining recently of a crippling abdominal pain

Irish Mirror

Vladimir Putin 'had 13-hour coughing fit and chest pain' before delaying TV speech

The General SVR Telegram channel has claimed that 'several attempts to start recording an appeal were frustrated due to coughing' and doctors were called after four unsuccessful attempts to record the address

Daily Mirror

Russia denies Vladimir Putin was hit by assassination attempt after motorcade attacked

According to the anti-Kremlin Telegram channel, Vladimir Putin was travelling back to his official residence on an unspecified date in a decoy motorcade over security fears, but the Kremlin has condemned this claim

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin's ex-aide who quit over Ukraine war can't close eyes in new photos

While his condition was today formally diagnosed as a rare neurological disorder, Guillain-Barré syndrome, there are reports that Italian secret services continue to investigate the case

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin suffers 'night health scare after complaining of severe nausea'

The claim is the latest saga in the ongoing conjecture over the Russian leader's health, with many experts speculating he could be 'seriously ill'

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin 'to become dad again at 69 as gymnast lover pregnant with daughter'

Vladimir Putin and his ex-gymnast lover Alina Kabaeva are said to be expecting a daughter, according to the General SVR Telegram channel - a web account said to be updated by Kremlin insiders

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin 'orders assassination of hitman who poisoned Alexander Litvinenko'

The death of Dmitry Kovtun, wanted in Britain for the murder of Alexander Litvinenkod, was revealed on Saturday and claims have been made by Telegram channel General SVR citing inside sources in the Kremlin

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Moscow hospital on standby with Vladimir Putin 'suffering from pancreatic cancer'

Ex-Soviet and now Israeli journalist Mark Kotlyarsky claimed Vladimir Putin's cancer diagnosis was confirmed to him by both Kremlin and medical informers in Moscow - it is claimed the Kremlin leader had an aggressive tumour

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin has 'zip in his step' and is more confident after surgery, says expert

Vladimir Putin, 69, met with Russian soldiers wounded during his so-called "special operation" in Ukraine at a Moscow military facility yesterday amid reports the tyrant is recovering from cancer surgery

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin 'cancer surgery' - what we do and don't know about operation rumours

Russian President Vladimir Putin did not attend engagements during May 2022 as he was recovering from "cancer surgery", it has been claimed

Daily Mirror

'Hunched' Vladimir Putin fidgets and twitches through meeting fuelling cancer rumours

Ailing tyrant Vladimir Putin fidgeted and twitched while discussing the Russian economy with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko - who has been branded Europe's last dictator

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Putin 'plans to hand over power as cancer rumours and signs of ill health grow'

Telegram channel General SVR - allegedly run by an ex-intel officer - claims Vladimir Putin is prepared to hand over power to an aide amid surgery rumours

Wales Online

Putin may disappear to have cancer surgery, claims mystery Russian Telegram account

The claims, which are unconfirmed, come from General SVR Telegram channel

Manchester Evening News

Mystery Russian account claims Vladimir Putin set to undergo cancer surgery

Putin has secretly nominated Nikolai Patrushev, a former KGB counterintelligence officer who once headed the FSB, to take “control” of Russia while he is incapacitated

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin 'grounds daughter from romantic hol amid fear she won't return to Russia'

Maria Vorontsova planned a romantic getaway with Yevgeny Nagorny, her partner since the breakup of her marriage to the Dutch son of a NATO colonel, General SVR Telegram channel claims

Evening Standard

Vladimir Putin stops daughter from flying abroad as ‘she didn’t plan to return’

Putin’s eldest daughter had planned a romantic getaway with her partner in order to celebrate her 37th birthday

Irish Mirror

Vladimir Putin moves family to 'hidden underground city in Siberia' as world on 'high alert' for nuclear warfare

In a recent post, the Telegram channel General SVR said senior political figures at the Kremlin "were warned on behalf of the president that, perhaps in the near future, they will participate in practising evacuation in case of a nuclear war

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