The Russia-Ukraine conflict has entered Day 110. But growing louder than the deafening sorties are murmurs about Russian president Vladimir Putin’s “ill-health.” Media across the West has been awash with reports about the 69-year-old President just being given “three years to live by doctors.”
In the latest report, it is now alleged that his bodyguards collect the fecal matter and urine to dispose of in Moscow. This is done out of fear that leaving the excrement behind could reveal too much information about Putin’s health should it fall into the wrong hands, the news outlet further said.
The bizarre claim was first reported in French news magazine Paris Match by two veteran investigative journalists. Other media outlets too followed spoke to experts about it.
“Putin fears the possibility of any information about his health getting into the hands of foreign intelligence services. He wants to project the image that he will be ruling Russia indefinitely in order to deter any chaos associated with a change of power,” Rebekah Koffler, president of Doctrine & Strategy Consulting and a former DIA intelligence officer, reportedly told Fox News.
The French publication further revealed that a special aide from Russia’s Federal Guard Service carries a suitcase in which Putin’s fecal matter is collected and sent back to Moscow.
Other publications have documented that the bodily waste is collected in specialised packets, which are the placed in the dedicated briefcase for the journey home.
The media outlet spoke to Regis Gente, an author of two books on Russia, and Mikhail Rubin, who has covered Russia for over a decade, who gave an example of such excrement collection – during Putin’s visit to France on 29 May 2017, and during his October 2019 trip to Saudi Arabia. Putin has reportedly carried out the practice since the beginning of his leadership.
The Russian President’s health has always in focus across the world, and since the Ukraine invasion started, rumours have been making rounds that he is seriously ill. A Russian oligarch with close ties to the Russian leader was recorded last month as saying “Putin is very ill with blood cancer”.
The spy’s dossier also claimed Putin is losing his sight and suffering from headaches. “We are told he is suffering from headaches and when he appears on TV he needs pieces of paper with everything written in huge letters to read what he’s going to say. They are so big each page can only hold a couple of sentences. His eyesight is seriously worsening,” the rebel Boris stated in an interview to the UK-based Daily Mirror.
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This must be standard practice for world leaders. The CIA was doing this to Khrushchev.