Russian President Vladimir Putin may have to temporarily relinquish control of the war in Ukraine after he had surgery to remove a cancer that had affected him. According to the “Kremlin contents” quoted by the British Daily Mail.
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Putin will reportedly nominate Nikolai Patrushev, head of the Russian Security Council and a staunch former FSB chief, as his interim successor.
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Patrushev, 70, was named one of the architects of the war strategy so far, and the man who convinced Putin that “Kiev is overrun with neo-Nazis.”
According to British media, Putin would have had abdominal cancer and Parkinson’s 18 months ago.
Moscow is reportedly postponing the surgery, originally scheduled for the second half of April, but will not take place before the commemoration of Victory Day, which now falls on May 9 and which at that time symbolized the Soviet Union’s victory in WWII.
“Putin was proposed to have surgery, whose history was discussed and agreed upon,” the outlet said. “There doesn’t seem to be any particular urgency, but it cannot be postponed.”
“I don’t know exactly how long (after surgery he will be incapacitated)…” the source continued.
The Kremlin has always stubbornly denied that Putin had any medical problems, claiming that he was in good health despite his mysterious disappearance in recent years.
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