Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to undergo cancer surgery and he would temporarily hand over power to a hardliner former federal police chief.
At the moment, Putin is currently not the head of the country as he has been battling cancer.
Putin, who declared war on Ukraine in February this year, will transfer the power to Nikolai Patrushev, head of the Russian federal police’s Security Council, while he is relieved from the task of leading the country, according to a video on Telegram channel “General SVR”.
The channel is run by a former Russian Foreign Intelligence Service lieutenant general known by the pseudonym “Viktor Mikhailovich”. According to the “General SVR”, Putin has been told by doctors that he must undergo an operation.
The surgery and the recovery will keep Putin out of active politics for a “short time”, according to the video.
“Putin is unlikely to agree to hand over power for a longer period of time,” the anchor of the video stated, adding that the control of the country will likely be in Patrushev’s hands for no more than two to three days.
“I will say that this is the worst option,” the anchor added.
The “Patrushev is an outright villain. He is no better than Vladimir Putin. Moreover, he is a more cunning, and I would say, more insidious person than Vladimir Putin. If he comes to power, Russians’ problems will only multiply.”
“Viktor Mikhailovich” ominously hinted that he and his allies “will make certain efforts so this does not happen, and I hope we will succeed.”
According to the Russian investigative agency; The Project, an oncologist has visited Putin 35 times in recent years. Putin has become so paranoid about his health, the outlet claimed. He is currently under painful therapies.
Putin is said to bathe in the blood extracted from deer antlers, which are hacked off while they are growing and still full of fresh blood, the outlet said. The sickening “antler baths” are an alternative therapy in the Altai region of Russia, which borders Khazakstan and Mongolia.
