Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone, who shadowed Putin for years, says he had cancer
"He's constantly accompanied around the place by a team of doctors," he told LBC's Eddie Mair.
"Meetings of the security council that are shown to supposedly last for a whole hour are actually broken up into several sections... he goes out and receives some kind of medical treatment between those sections. "And so clearly he is seriously ill, I mean how terminal or incurable it is is not clear... we can't be entirely sure.Read more:Picture: Alamy"In the military's terms the structures of command and so on are not functioning as they should," he claimed.The Kremlin has always strongly denied Putin is ill, but critics say mysterious disappearances, long tables and his sometimes bloated, trembling appearance may prove otherwise.
Changes in his appearance and behaviour have led to claims he is suffering from an illness such as Parkinson's, while others have said his symptoms could be side effects of steroid treatment. Vladimir Putin ordered to cancel the storming of Azovstal in order to save the lives of Russian servicemen, as well as completely block the enterprise
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