Lucrezia Ciotti In the last few hours a new video from Vladimir Putin has reignited the debate on its status healthThe images, in which the Russian president greets an expert during an anti-e-cigarette event, attracted attention not so much for the context, but for the appearance of his right hand, fueling speculation and doubts.
Doubts about Vladimir Putin's health
The video portraying Russian President Vladimir Putin Putin During an event dedicated to the fight against e-cigarettes, he attracted the attention of the international media. In the images, the 73-year-old leader is immortalized while greeting the young activist Yekaterina Leshchinskaya, but what aroused more interest is not the context of the meeting but the right hand of the president, visibly swollen and crossed by marked veins.
The images, relaunched by newspapers such as the New York Post and the Daily Mail, have reignited speculation about his physical condition, raising questions about his overall health.
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Experts and observers have noted that similar phenomena are not unheard of: in the past, some public appearances of Putin they had already shown unusual movements or tense facial features. Some doctors, interviewed by British newspapers, have hypothesized that these signs may derive from the use of drugs, intensive treatments, or steroids, but they have not ruled out causes related to age or chronic pathologies.
Ukrainian journalist Dmytro Gordon and former adviser to the ministry Interior Minister Anton Gerashchenko commented that the appearance of the hand could indicate pain or inflammation. However, The Kremlin reiterated that there are no health problems and called theories about replacements or lookalikes of the president fanciful.
A new video surfaced of putin and there's something really wrong with his hands. Russians online are starting to worry their ruler isn't okay.
Nonetheless, we hope he never gets well. pic.twitter.com/NUmqwFMBnW
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