During a live Q&A session on Sky News with defense and security analyst Professor Michael Clark, a viewer asked: “Is Putin really sick or is he just a pious desire?” Mr Clarke said speculation about Mr Putin’s health would be “circulated” and people often asked “does he have cancer, pancreas, Parkinson’s disease?” “When you see him in these clips that we see more and more often now that COVID is over and he is now coming out of the shadows, where he has been for over two years, and he makes it clear that he is in control – it looks okay. . “I’ve talked to a lot of people who say you can’t detect Parkinson’s disease by the way you walk, you can’t detect cancer symptoms just by looking at pictures.” He said “there is no convincing evidence”. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov denied that there were any concerns about Mr Putin’s health when he gave an interview to French television in late May. He said “you can watch him on the screens, read and listen to his performances” and “I do not think healthy people can see signs of any kind of disease or ill health”. Rumors of his health have been fueled by observers speculating about how Mr Putin was during the meetings, including whether he is holding the table in pain – or that he has a swollen face that could show evidence of steroid use. . “I suspect he’s just hypochondriac” Mr Clarke said: “October 7 will be the 70th anniversary. It is known that Botox beats very hard, I always say that it tries to be embalmed while it is still alive – it takes a lot of Botox. “He goes around with doctors, it is known that there is a small group of doctors who are never far away, and it is said that he leaves the meetings at frequent intervals to go and consult someone. “I suspect he’s just hypochondriac, to be honest.” Read more: Why the Russian leader is so obsessed with getting Ukraine What if the Russian leader falls ill? “If he gets sick or he gets sick, that would be a way out for Russia to say that the president has resigned and that the war will now be ousted by Nikolai Patrushev – who is as ugly as he is,” Clark said. . “At least it would be a change of face with which the West could then do something, but that is just a side possibility, in fact.”
