A Russian expert says that 2023 may be Putin’s last year in power as president as it is claimed that Vladimir Putin is using Western treatments to treat his cancer.
‘I can say that without this [foreign] treatment he would definitely not have been in public life in the Russian Federation,’ said Russian historian and political analyst Valery Solovey.
‘This is absolutely certain.
‘He uses the most advanced treatments, [and] target therapy which Russia cannot provide him with….’I would say that the treatment has been too successful.
‘They have been treating him too well.’
Despite this ‘the end is already in sight, even according to the doctors who are curating this treatment, because no medication can be endlessly successful’.
Solovey who has long claimed inside knowledge about Putin’s health did not say where the ‘non-Russian doctors’ allegedly treating Putin are from but confirmed that Putin ‘trusts’ them, with the treatment overseen by top Moscow medics.
News emerged that Putin have a number of potential successors who he is said to be considering.
Solovey revealed Putin’s plan when he can go on no longer is to hand power to little-known Russian agriculture minister Dmitry Patrushev, 45, son of his trusted.
Also, a powerful top security aide Nikolai Patrushev, 71, a virulently anti-Western former head of the FSB, and a key architect of the war in Ukraine is in the mix.
Another possible successor is Alexei Dyumin, 50, a former Putin bodyguard and ex-deputy defence minister, who he met on Friday when they toured a major weapons plant in Tula region, where he is now governor.