The Kremlin denied on Tuesday, October 24, information shared on Telegram by an alleged former Russian lieutenant that Russian President Vladimir Putin suffered a cardiac arrest that Sunday evening.
An unfounded rumor, according to the Russian authorities. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Tuesday denied claims from a man who claimed to be a former Russian lieutenant that Vladimir Putin had recently suffered a cardiac arrest.
“There is nothing wrong with him, this is another false information,” Dmitry Peskov officially stated, whose comments were relayed by Midi Libre.
The latter denied a second rumor that Vladimir Putin had used lookalikes. “This belongs to the category of absurd information falsifications that a whole range of media spread with enviable persistence. “That just raises a smile,” the Kremlin spokesman added.
Security forces reportedly surprised Vladimir Putin in the middle of a crisis
According to information obtained by La Dépêche, the rumor spread on Telegram by a man nicknamed “GeneralSVR” suggested that the Russian president suffered a cardiac arrest on Sunday evening at his private residence in Moscow.
According to this source, security officers of the head of state who were on duty “at the residence” of Vladimir Putin “heard the sounds of falling coming from the bedroom.” The latter would have entered the room before noticing the leader “lying on the floor next to the bed”, “with his eyes rolled back” and “twitching”.
Vladimir Putin is regularly the subject of rumors about his health. The previous one is from May 2022 and comes from the same Telegram account. According to her, the president may have suffered from colon or thyroid cancer.
A month earlier, there was another rumor that attributed him to Parkinson’s disease because a video showed him sitting curled up in his chair with a stiff leg in the company of one of his ministers, Sergei Shoigu.