Putin "doesn't have a long life ahead of him": Ukraine intelligence chief with spicy claims
Created: 07/03/2022 04:47
By: Hannes Niemeyer
How is Putin's health?
Now a high-ranking Ukrainian official has come forward - and, citing spies, gives the Kremlin boss only a few more years.
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There have been a number of rumors about Vladimir Putin's health for a long time.
Not least since the Ukraine conflict escalated in February and culminated in the brutal Russian war of aggression on the country in the middle of Europe.
How the Kremlin ruler's health really is cannot be independently verified.
On the Ukraine side, however, there seems to be a firm belief that the now 69-year-old Putin's health is anything but good.
New statements about his condition are now coming from a high address in Kyiv: Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Ukrainian secret service, has now commented in an interview.
According to him, things are not going well for Putin.
Is Vladimir Putin seriously ill?
Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Ukrainian secret service, now claims this in an interview.
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How is Putin's health?
Ukraine intelligence boss attests him "no longer long life"
In an interview with the US news site USA Today
, Budanov bases his claims
on statements by a spy network that Ukraine is said to be running in the Kremlin.
According to Budanov, there are spies in the presidential administration, in parliament and even in the Russian secret service.
The network of operators in the Kremlin had reported that Putin was "seriously" ill.
According to Budanov, Putin "didn't have a long life ahead of him," told
USA Today
.
However, the intelligence chief did not go into specifics about what disease this could be.
However, he was a little more specific about the length of time that Vladimir Putin should remain.
Accordingly, his spy network believes that Putin will die of these diseases within the next two years.
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Putin "seriously ill"?
Ukraine intelligence chief gives interview - and makes information about spies public
Of course, it is difficult to judge what is really true about the statements.
It could also be a kind of propaganda strategy of Ukraine in the information war against Russia.
However, Budanov's statements come as a bit of a surprise.
Not only because he is the first high-ranking Ukrainian official to speak so clearly about Putin's state of health in a public conversation.
But also because he
openly revealed in an interview with
USA Today where Ukrainian spies could be located in the Kremlin.
It remains unclear why he publicly passed on such specific insider information.
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But what if the rumors were true and Vladimir Putin really had to abdicate in the near future?
There is already speculation about a successor to Putin from the inner circle of power.
Also discussed again and again: A putsch against Putin in the Kremlin.
According to an insider, three men could do it.
(han)
