A former Russian intelligence officer revealed that there’s a sample to Vladimir Putin’s hospital visits. Vladimir Putin has “annual medical check-ups” on the Central Medical Hospital in Moscow, principally within the “late summer time or early autumn,” federal guard service officer Gleb Karakulov stated in an interview.
However in 2022, the check-up happened in April, Gleb Karakulov revealed instructed Russian unbiased investigative outlet The File Heart. Gleb Karakulov earlier served as a captain within the Federal Guard Service. He’s the highest-ranking intelligence employee in current historical past to defect from Russia to West, the outlet stated.
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“He’s in higher well being than many different individuals his age,” Gleb Karakulov stated. Only some of his official journeys or engagements have been canceled due to his well being in additional than a decade, he added.
Amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, hypothesis has surrounded Vladimir Putin’s well being, with little being recognized. Western intelligence sources have earlier claimed that the Russian President had most cancers remedy in April 2022 whereas the top of Ukraine’s army intelligence Kyrylo Budanov instructed ABC Information that “after all” Vladimir Putin was “terminally unwell.”
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Different experiences recommended that he had developed Parkinson’s illness. Gleb Karakulov stated that the unfold of Covid has been a significant concern for the Kremlin.
“We nonetheless have a self-isolating president,” he stated, including that these in direct contact with Putin have “to watch a strict quarantine for 2 weeks earlier than any occasion,” even the scheduled conferences that final about 15 to twenty minutes.
There are a “pool of staff” who enter a quarantine cycle to then be thought-about “‘clear’ and may work in the identical room as Putin,” he stated.