Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has tried to quell speculation about rumors about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s health, saying on Sunday that “healthy” people can see that he is in good health.
In an interview with French television news TF1 and LCI, Lavrov denied speculation that the 69-year-old Russian leader was in poor health and said he did not suffer from any disease.
Lavrov noted that “President Putin appears in public every day. “
“You can see him on the screens, read his speeches, listen to his speeches. “I don’t think sane people can tell the symptoms of this disease,” he said.
His comments came after former British MI5 agent Christopher Steele – who wrote the high-profile dossier on former President Trump – told Sky News that, according to sources in Russia and elsewhere, “Putin is actually quite seriously ill.”
“It’s not clear what exactly this disease is – whether it’s incurable, terminal, or whatever,” Steele added last week. “But I certainly think that’s part of the equation.”
New Lines magazine also reported earlier this month that an oligarch who is an ally of Putin said in an audio recording received from the magazine that the Russian president was “very ill with blood cancer.”
However, the report added that a secret note addressed to Russia’s Internal Security Agency, the FSB, on March 13, said that regional agency heads should not “trust rumors of the president’s final state”, quoting Hristo Grozev. , head of investigations at the research site Bellingcat.
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The reports have not been confirmed by US intelligence.
The White House and other observers have also sounded the alarm about Putin’s thinking after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February this year.
In March, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, an ally of Putin, said in an interview that the Russian president was “in better shape than ever” and called him “completely sane.”
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