Vladimir Putin was having hormone remedy for most cancers when he invaded Ukraine which can have clouded his judgement, Danish intelligence has claimed.
An agent for the Danish Defence Intelligence Service FE, named solely as Joakim, stated the Russian tyrant can also be affected by continual ache which explains why he has been seen all through the warfare tightly gripping tables and chairs for help.
The official, who leads Denmark’s intelligence gathering on Putin, stated the 70-year-old’s most cancers analysis will not be terminal however his prescribed medicine might have given him ‘delusions of grandeur’.
He instructed German information outlet Berlingske: ‘That is continual ache that he has suffered from for fairly a while now.
Vladimir Putin is pictured tightly gripping a desk whereas showing sick at east throughout a gathering in April with Sergei Shoigu
‘That is why he tends to take a seat and seize issues tightly. It is to ease the ache.’
As well as, the key service believes the Russian president was given robust medication to nullify the ache, which can be a results of a fall or a sporting harm.
Putin was tormented by rumours about his sick well being all through 2022, fuelled by his public appearances the place he appeared sick comfy and unsteady, typically clutching at surfaces for help.
Danish spies at FE additionally imagine Putin beforehand had most cancers and was present process remedy at the beginning of the warfare.
Joakim stated: ‘Delusions of grandeur are one of many identified negative effects of the kind of hormone remedy that he was on.
It’s believed the Russian tyrant can also be affected by continual ache which explains why he has been seen all through the warfare tightly gripping tables and chairs for help
JULY 26: Putin listens to Yury Borisov, the chief government of Russia’s area company Roscosmos, whereas he grips his desk along with his proper hand
AUGUST 25: Vladimir Putin is seen gripping the identical desk along with his proper hand throughout a gathering with Head of the Federal Taxation Service Daniil Yegorov
‘It is not one thing I can say for sure, however I believe it did have an effect on his choices when he launched the warfare in Ukraine.’
Joakim stated the war-mongering chief’s drooped face was one other signal of this hormone remedy, including it’s doubtless he was identified with thyroid most cancers.
The claims again up different intelligence experiences which recommend Putin has develop into extra paranoid and unstable.
CIA director William Burns stated final yr: ‘I had handled and watched President Putin for a few years and what I’ve seen, particularly over the past decade, is him in a method stewing in a really flamable mixture of grievance and ambition and insecurity [that] are all form of wrapped collectively.’
The intelligence chief stated Putin’s narrowing interior circle and his grip on energy have each tightened, making him extra remoted and deluded concerning the true actuality of warfare.
A latest report by the Wall Avenue Journal additionally claimed Putin has shunned the web for worry of Western surveillance and he’s absolutely depending on experiences from his personally appointed advisers who’re afraid to talk the reality.
A number of the updates from the battlefield may even take days to reach on his desk, that means the data is not related.
His prepared lapdogs steadily spotlight Moscow’s successes and downplay its many failures within the warfare, giving Putin confidence that he’ll nonetheless push on to victory.
US intelligence claims there’s not one senior Kremlin determine with Putin’s ear who is ready to upset him or counter his warped worldview.
JULY 19: Russian president Vladimir Putin is seen hobbling from his presidential airplane through the welcoming ceremony in Tehran
The tyrant was not too long ago noticed with obvious monitor marks from IV remedy on the again of his hand
The president has even held conferences with army specialists and arms producers who had been left baffled by his deluded mind-set.
Brokers at FE imagine Russia was near successful the warfare inside its first two weeks, however Putin stood of their method.
The intelligence chiefs declare the president personally intervened and overruled his generals, that means forces didn’t know what they had been meant to be doing.
Telegram channel Basic SVR, which purports to have insider sources within the Kremlin, stated Putin’s docs not too long ago famous a ‘important deterioration in his well being’ and really helpful that he step away from appearances to relaxation.
‘In December, following medical suggestions, the president cancelled a number of conventional occasions and a number of other visits,’ the channel alleged.
Putin ‘will get drained rapidly’, suffers ‘frequent bouts of dizziness and complications’ and can also be liable to ‘clouding of consciousness’, it added.
The stresses of his failing warfare in Ukraine are additionally taking a toll, it’s claimed.
‘Fixed nervous stress and immersion in issues on the entrance created a adverse setting for the course of [his] illnesses.’
In December, he cancelled deliberate appearances at a lot of important occasions.
These embrace the final minute pullout from a presidential journey to Pskov on December 28, which was formally blamed on ‘unfavourable flying situations’ regardless of climate forecasts suggesting the skies had been clear.
The Russian president was reported to have shelved a go to to Russia’s largest tank plant in Nizhny Tagil, within the Ural mountains, and likewise cancelled his regular look at an finish of yr assembly of his authorities ministers.
Putin refused to go-ahead along with his conventional December press convention, which generally sees the president converse for as much as 4 hours and subject questions from journalists and viewers, and even cancelled his beloved end-of-year ice-hockey recreation.
Hypothesis about Putin’s well being has swirled ever since he ordered troops throughout Ukraine’s border on February 24.
He has appeared unsteady throughout public appearances, together with uncommon fidgeting along with his arms and toes in conferences with different world leaders.
Forward of 1 assembly with Belarus dictator Alexander Lukashenko early on through the warfare, his hand was seen shaking in an obvious signal of Parkinson’s.
Different pictures have proven him tightly gripping a desk edge as if attempting to regular his hand and cease a tremor.
His stroll has additionally drawn suspicions due to an obvious limp.
In the meantime Oliver Stone, a director who was given broad entry to Putin for a 2017 documentary, additionally went on file to say he thought Putin had most cancers however beat it.
Across the identical time New Traces journal claimed to have obtained a recording of a Russian oligarch – who they didn’t title – saying Putin was ‘sick with blood most cancers’.
Only a month earlier, a Russian investigative web site referred to as Proekt stated it had obtained paperwork that proved Putin travels with a big crew of docs.
Amongst them had been a specialist in resuscitation, a specialist in treating violent trauma, and a most cancers specialist.
Russian President Vladimir Putin takes half in an invitational ice hockey match in Sochi, Russia Might 10, 2014
The Russian president has additionally steadily vanished from public view for days at a time with no clarification ever provided.
In 2015, he went lacking for 10 days, prompting some to go so far as suggesting he had died.
Putin then went lacking in 2017 for eight days, earlier than one other two-day absence in 2018 throughout presidential election campaigning.
On that event, the Kremlin was pressured to confess that the president had ‘a chilly’.
The Kremlin has persistently denied experiences the Putin is struggling poor well being, notably for the reason that warfare in Ukraine started.
And no agency proof has ever emerged to recommend his is severely sick.
