The health of the Russian President has been the subject of much conjecture, with allegations suggesting he is suffering from both abdominal cancer and Parkinson’s disease. Putin, who is 69 years old, is likely to vanish while he undergoes surgery. Putin is likely to choose Security Council head Nikolai Patrushev to lead the invasion,
Patrushev, 70, is widely the key architect of Ukraine’s war plan. He is also the man who persuaded Putin that Kyiv was full of neo-Nazis.
Popular Russian Telegram channel General SVR made the assertion. It has been raising questions about Putin’s health for the past 18 months.
“Putin has discussed that he will be undergoing medical procedures,” they quote an unknown former high-ranking Kremlin military member as stating.
“Doctors insist that he needs an operation, but the date has not yet been determined,” says the person. His voice appears to be disguised in the video. (https://fisheries.org/)
“He will have surgery and while he is incapacitated,” he says about Putin. Also, adding that he, “thinks it’ll be for a short time”.
Red Victory Day and Putin’s hospitalization
The pick of spymaster Patrushev, according to the source, was the “worst option” following a two-hour “heart to heart” with Putin.
He went on to say that Putin’s health issues might get worse.
“What if, all of a sudden, Putin manifests particularly severe health problems?” he said.
“We know very well that he has cancer, and Parkinson’s disease, as we have said many times.
“It was possible to contain it for some time, but now the course of the disease is progressing.”
Putin’s specific hospitalization date is unknown, but it is unlikely to be before May 9. He will preside over the spectacular Red Victory Day commemoration of Hitler’s defeat.
Failure of objectives
Putin could use the day to declare the mobilization of his reserves for the last push in Ukraine, states UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace.
He told LBC: “He is probably going to declare… that we are now at war with the world’s Nazis and we need to mass mobilize the Russian people.
“Putin, having failed in nearly all objectives, may seek to consolidate what he’s got…and just be a sort of cancerous growth within the country.”
It comes as military leaders have encouraged Putin to abandon the name “special operation” for the invasion and declare war on Ukraine. Thereby, allowing Russian troops to mass mobilize.
An all-out conflict would allow Moscow to enlist more conscripts, institute martial law, and court international assistance from allies like Belarus.
A source close to Russian military chiefs told The Telegraph: “The military are outraged that the blitz on Kyiv failed.”
“People in the army are seeking payback for failures of the past, and they want to go further in Ukraine.”