PUTIN TO UNDERGO CANCER SURGERY, KNOW WHO WILL TAKE OVER PUTIN’S POWER?
Moscow (The quiver) : Russian president Vladmir Putin might undergo cancer surgery . Till getting well he would handover his power to the secretary of Russia’s Security Council , Nikolai Patrushev ,claims unverified media reports .
Putin has reportedly been told by doctors that he must undergo an operation, the New York Post reported citing a Telegram channel purportedly run by a former Russian Foreign Intelligence Service lieutenant general.
Referring to Putin’s,”sickly appearance and uncharacteristically fidgety behaviour in public” in recent times, the report stated that the Russian President has been rumored to suffer from cancer and a host of other serious maladies, including Parkinson’s disease.
However, a US official said that the media reports could not be verified with Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby saying on Monday that “I have seen nothing that could help us corroborate that,” New York Post reported.
As stated by the report citing a Telegram post , ” A few days ago Putin allegedly had a two-hour “heart-to-heart” conversation with Nikolai Patrushev”.
The post mentions , Putin considers Patrushev his only trusted ally and friend in the government . “Additionally, the president promised that if his health takes a turn for the worse, actual control of the country will temporarily pass into Patrushev’s hands ,” the post claimed.
“Patrushev is an outright villain. He is no better than Vladimir Putin. Moreover, he is a more cunning, and I would say, more insidious person than Vladimir Putin. If he comes to power, Russians’ problems will only multiply,” the owner of the Telegram channel which claimed about Putin’s cancer surgery said.
WHO IS NIKOLAI PATRUSHEV ?
Patruchev , the secretary Russia’s Security Council is an influential body that answers directly to Putin and issues guidance on military and security issues within Russia, the New York Post reported, adding, that, most of the council’s power is vested in Patrushev, who is widely seen as a staunch Putin ally.
Like Putin, Patrushev is a career Russian intelligence agent, first with the Soviet KGB, then later with the Russian FSB, the report said citing Moscow Times.
Last week, in a rare interview with state-run Russian paper Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Patrushev accused America and Europe of backing neo-Nazi ideology in Ukraine and seeking to draw the conflict out “to the last Ukrainian,” the report stated.
“Using their henchmen in Kyiv, the Americans, in an attempt to suppress Russia, decided to create an antipode of our country, cynically choosing Ukraine for this, trying to divide essentially a single people,” he reportedly said.
Questions over the Russian President’s health have been raised in recent weeks but are the claims rumors or reality , time will say. Everyone is curious to know whether the Russian President is really ill or not.
