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Vladimir Putin is terminally ill and is being kept alive by doctors in order to finish his war in Ukraine, new reports claim.
Medics are using advanced Western treatments to target the warmonger's cancer and stop it from spreading to the rest of his body – but the dictator is not likely to live to see another year, sources have told Ukrainian media.
"I can say that without this [foreign] treatment he would definitely not have been in public life in the Russian Federation,” said Valery Solovey, a Russian political scientist.
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“This is absolutely certain.
“He uses the most advanced treatments, [and] target therapy which Russia cannot provide him with….
“I would say that the treatment has been too successful.
“They have been treating him too well.”
Solovey added that despite the advanced treatment, “the end is already in sight, even according to the doctors who are curating this treatment, because no medication can be endlessly successful”.
He told Ukrainian YouTube channel Odesa Film Studio that “it is obvious that he has problems with movement – with legs – [that] many viewers have noticed.”
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The warmonger initially suffered colon cancer which has spread "and is more dangerous now".
His treatment has led to a series of side effects, including early symptoms of Parkinson’s, Solovey claimed.
“He has quite serious medical problems,” said the expert.
“The most serious of them is oncology. So far he is kept ‘floating’ by the way treatment is curated by non-Russian doctors.
“The strategy and tactics of the treatment were defined by doctors who are out of Russia.
“They are the [doctors] who performed surgery on him in February 2020, soon after he was diagnosed with an oncology.”
According to Solovey, Putin is planning to pass the baton onto the Russian agriculture minister, Dmitry Patrushev, 45, who is also the son of top security aide Nikolai Patrushev, 71.
Patrushev is reportedly anti-West and a supporter of the war in Ukraine.
Alexei Dyumin, 50 – Putin's former bodyguard and ex-deputy defence minister – is also a contender for the role of Russian dictator when Putin passes away.
Dyumin, who is now the governor of the Tula region, met with Putin on Friday and the pair toured a major weapons plant.
"Putin is now having his last chance, I would say,” Solovey added, claiming that if Putin doesn't step down or pass away, there could be an internal uprising.
“If he doesn’t make use of it, the elites will not only turn away from him for good…they will turn to action.”
“If we are talking about a successor, that is just one person, only one person yet, and that is Dmitry Patrushev,” he said.
This comes shortly after the warmonger pulled out of the annual nation address for unknown reasons.
Putin's pal Dmitry Peskov said the dictator had pulled out of the event – the latest in a string of cancellations by the dictator – because he didn't have time to attend, but others are skeptical.
“Usually when [trips] are cancelled there are two factors at play: matters of health and safety," Solovey added.
“I don’t know which one prevailed in this case.”
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