The essentials Kyrylo Boudanov, director of the Ukrainian military intelligence service, spoke about Vladimir Putin’s health in an interview broadcast by the American television channel ABC.
Rumors and theories about Vladimir Putin’s health have been circulating since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. And the words of the director of the Ukrainian military intelligence service will make many people react. In an interview broadcast by American television network ABC, Kyrylo Budanov claimed that Vladimir Putin was “dying”.
“He’s going to die very quickly, I think, I hope,” he stated simply. “We think it’s cancer,” said the man, who said he got his information from “human sources.” “This war should end before he dies.” This senior officer, who, according to our colleagues at BFMTV 2020, took over as head of Ukraine’s intelligence agency, has been accused by Russia of being one of the men behind the October 2022 attack on the Crimean bridge.
Since the beginning of the conflict, rumors of pathologies from which the Russian president is suffering have been piling up. Rumors that cannot be verified, especially related to wars, lead to a real communications war between Kyiv and Moscow. CIA director William Burns broke in last July by declaring that Vladimir Putin was “in the best of health.”
In May, Russia’s foreign minister denied: “I don’t think anyone with all their senses can detect any signs of any illness or disease in this person (Putin).”