Evil Putin using 'scorched-Earth policy' so Russia can wipe Ukrainian city off the map

Russian president Vladimir Putin is reportedly being treated for cancer, according to US intelligence.High-ranking officials at three separate intelligence agencies made the assessment with reports emerging in US media. It comes after a period of prolonged speculation that the Russian leader is suffering from terminal ailments.“Putin is definitely sick,” an official from the office of the director of National Intelligence told Newsweek, while noting, “whether he’s going to die soon is just mere speculation.”Two other officials – one from the Defence Intelligence Agency and one retired Air Force officer – also claimed to have access to a comprehensive intelligence assessment of Putin’s health and said the outlook for the Russian leader is bleak, according to the report.The assessment supports the theory that Putin was missing from the world stage for much of April because he was undergoing treatment for advanced cancer.“Is Putin sick? Absolutely,” said the retired Air Force officer.

rocket systems to Ukraine in a bid to further arm the country against Vladimir Putin's forces. Russian soldiers remain waging war on their international neighbours after months of bloody fighting which has killed tens of thousands of civilians and troops.

Ukrainian soldiers are wearing their pride on their chest with a unicorn patch as an act of defiance against Russia and the country’s attempted erasure of LGBTQ+ people.Out LGBTQ soldiers currently fighting for Ukraine’s sovereignty from Russia have been donning unicorn patches to signal to Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Russia as a whole, that they won’t be silenced. Back in 2014, Russia invaded Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula. During that invasion, there was an overwhelming push by the Russian military to remove anyone from its ranks who identified as a part of the LGBTQ community.The Crimean Peninsula has historically been one of the few safe spots in Eastern Europe to be LGBTQ.

Vladimir Putin is dangerously ill have been boosted by a secret US intelligence report that claims the Russian leader was treated for an advanced case of cancer last month.Three highly-placed sources within the US intelligence community say they’ve read the report and that there’s evidence that potential rivals within the Kremlin are preparing for a leadership contest because “the end is near”.A Kremlin insider revealed last week that Putin had “no more than two to three years” to live, and that one of the most obvious signs of his declining health is that he’s starting to lose his eyesight.The three sources that have seen the latest report prepared for US president Joe Biden – one from the office of the Director of National Intelligence, one a retired Air Force senior officer, and one from the Defence Intelligence Agency – stress that it’s increasingly difficult to obtain any reliable first-hand evidence about Putin’s condition because he is becoming increasingly isolated and has very few face-to-face meetings."Putin has had few meetings with foreign leaders," one source told Newsweek, "Putin's isolation has thus increased levels of speculation." But speculation about the leader’s health is growing inside Russia as well as in the Pentagon. "Putin's grip is strong but no longer absolute," says one senior intelligence source.

Putin in a bid to stop the mass production of landmines.  In 2003, the former model and her then husband Sir Paul McCartney met the Russian leader during their world tour.  Speaking on The Argus Podcast, Heather, 54, revealed how part of her charity work at the time was attempting to convince governments to stop mass producing and stockpiling weapons.

Vladimir Putin's minions after she posed for a photo on top of a destroyed Russian tank during her voluntary work in Ukraine.Brazilian bikini model Liziane Gutierrez, who has over one million dedicated online fans, went to eastern Europe in March to help give aid during the bloody battle for the country.She is known for taking legal action against rapper Chris Brown in 2016 over an alleged incident in Las Vegas, but has found herself in the headlines again for the picture from the warzone.Even though her post was only online for five minutes, it quickly triggered vile abuse and one Russian soldier immediately messaged Liziane with haunting threats.She explained how one message claimed "I'm going after you" - to which the brave star replied "Try your luck".The Russian fighter wasn't the only one left fuming at the picture and Liziane's direct messages were quickly filled up with hate and taunts from all around the world.“In the five minutes that the picture was there, I got everything you could possibly imagine,” she said.“‘I hope you die in Ukraine, I hope a missile goes straight on your head’ and all this kind of stuff.”But Liziane is still fairly relaxed at staying in a warzone and videos show her climbing on tanks and joking it is "like a war movie set".In another she added: “It’s sad, but I don’t feel sad because they started this.”The model explained she came across the destroyed military vehicles with another aid worker on the way to Bucha, a city northwest of Kiev that was the site of fighting that left thousands of people dead.She said the tanks were labelled with the chilling Z symbol, which has become infamous for its pro-Putin and warmongering meaning.“We saw some people up on the tanks celebrating like ‘Slava

massive intercontinental ballistic missile that will be launched next week by Vladimir Putin's military.Although it is unclear on which missile is being used in the launch, residents of the Kamchatka region were warned by officials of the upcoming weapons test.The previous weapons test from Russian forces came on April 20, where despot Putin had his forces trial a Satan-2, a silo-launched intercontinental ballistic missile.Other launches are prepped for later in the year, with Russians set to test out their hypersonic 208-ton weaponry, also known as the Sarmat missile.Officials from Kamchatka issued a warning to those living nearby and tourists in the area that the missile test would be relatively soon, with a planned launch between June 6 and June 10.A statement from officials read: "We are announcing the upcoming launch and closing of the fall area for movements of people, equipment of all kinds, aviation flights and tourist groups." The Kura testing range is set to receive the blast, with officials warning that several areas were at risk of "the fall of the separating parts of the launch vehicle or its fragments".Areas at risk included the "eastern and south-eastern parts of the Tigilsky district, the southwestern part of the Karaginsky district and the north-western part of the Ust-Kamchatsky district of the Kamchatka region."The last test launch missile, Satan-2, was deployed in April this year, with Putin saying the new missile would ensure the security of Russia and make "those fierce people who are trying to threaten it" think again.The Russian president also claimed there would be "no analogues to this weapon in the world for a long time to come".Satan-2's April launch saw the 14-storey high missile blast off

Russians tried as war criminals has said he wanted the conflict in Ukraine to end and that the invasion by Vladimir Putin had been a "failure". Alexander Bobykin, 26, and Alexander Ivanov, 21, were in a artillery unit that fired at least 38 missiles at civilians and destroyed a school in February. They each received 12-year sentences at the Kotelevska district court of the Poltava region on Tuesday (May 30).The soldiers, who listened to the verdict standing in a reinforced glass box at the court in central Ukraine, both pleaded guilty last week.

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Vladimir Putin’s closest sidekicks claims Russian troops will advance across Europe “until they reach Stonehenge”.Vladimir Solovyov – dubbed “Putin’s Voice” – regularly makes outlandish threats against the UK on his weekly TV show, including claiming Zircon nuclear missiles would “bomb Britain back to the Stone Age”. Asked this week how far west Russia ’s military would advance, he replied: “Well, when we have to, then we will.

chemical factoryAnalysts believe Russian leader Vladimir Putin has concentrated a major part of his invasion force near Severodonetsk in a bid to achieve complete control over the eastern Luhansk province. Victory in Luhansk could provide Putin with a face-saving “win” which would bring the campaign in Ukraine to an end – but in order to break through stiff Ukrainian resistance the Russian air force is subjecting Severodonetsk to round-the-clock bombing raids.

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Russian military have been secretly recorded and can be heard insulting Vladimir Putin over the invasion of Ukraine and the retreat from Kyiv, it has been claimed. Russia failed to make quick grabs of territory in Ukraine when it first invaded the country on February 24, and that failure appears to have sparked dissent among Russian ranks.So far, Russian forces have changed strategy and withdrawn from the north of Ukraine and are now focusing on the eastern parts of the country.But two top military officials have blasted Putin over his forces failure to take the capital of Kyiv in an allegedly bugged call by Ukrainian intelligence services.The call featured Colonel Maksin Vlasov and Colonel Vitaly Kovtun, who allegedly had harsh words for the Kremlin leader.Kovtun can be heard saying: "A f***ing rocket should fly into (Ukraine’s Parliament) in Kyiv.

Russia has one of the world’s largest armies, but a new report says the conflict in Ukraine – which is estimated to have cost in the region of 30,000 Russian lives – could force its collapse. Russian leader Vladimir Putin reportedly believes that the “blood sacrifice” of all those young men, along with over 200 warplanes destroyed, around 174 helicopters, 1,349 tanks and 13 boats is a “price worth paying” for the control of Ukraine.

Vladimir Putin may already be dead as rumours spiral about the Russian leader's death, MI6 sources say.

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Russian troops the go-ahead to shoot dead "looters" and pet dogs and lie about it has allegedly fallen into Ukrainian hands.The instruction blueprint, said to have been seized from Vladimir Putin’s forces, also tells soldiers to avoid using the words “killed, liquidated, [and] shot” when talking to locals - even if they commit such acts.Such descriptions “impact on local residents extremely negatively” and should not be used, the document states.Instead, they should say “the problem has been solved” if they kill a local deemed to be a looter or a member of the “territorial defence”, usually elderly reservists known as the Ukrainian Dad's Army."House dogs" are also legitimate targets to be shot dead, it says.The alleged dossier says Russians should avoid telling locals that they have shelled their communities and tell them they are on a "humanitarian mission" bringing food if asked what they are doing there.In a shocking understatement, it states: "Don’t explain that people in Donbas are getting shelled - local residents don’t take it well, don’t understand it."Troops are also urged to answer a question with a question to dodge the truth and never use the word "war."If asked why they carry weapons, they should tell people they are replacing the police because they "ran away" and that there are "looters and criminals, released by Zelensky."For the latest breaking news and stories from across the globe from the Daily Star, sign up for our newsletter by clicking here.The aim is to "seed the thought that the Ukrainian authorities are weak, that they escaped and left their people without money, food and pensions.”The document purports to be from the Russian army, headed by defence minister Sergei Shoigu - a close Putin ally -

Russia has now lost 30,000 troops, 1,330 tanks, 207 planes and 174 helicopters during the war, according to Ukrainian officials.President Vladimir Putin is being forced to “conceal” the true scale of Russian losses in Ukraine to avoid the country’s citizens from accepting that they might not be winning the war, former UK foreign secretary, William Hague, has claimed.For the latest breaking news and stories from across the globe from the Daily Star, sign up for our newsletter by clicking here.He said in a radio interview: "They’re very uncomfortable, and of course what they mean to him first of all is that he has to conceal them as much as possible from the Russian population, because he doesn’t want to admit that the Russian losses have been anything like that."Look at how he reacted – how the Russian government reacted – to the loss of the Moskva, which was to say that a fire had broken out and the seas were stormy and so on, and to not even admit that it might have been hit by the Ukrainians, which it clearly was."So what it means to Putin first of all is cover this up at all costs because people in Russia might realise what is going on."

Ukraine. The video, believed to be captured by a Ukrainian soldier, appears to show the Russian bomb light up the night sky with a shower of thermite - a horrific concoction of aluminum powder and iron oxide that burns at a high temperature, which The Sun claims can "burn flesh down to the bone".It is also reported the thermite bomb was fired by Russian grad launchers using 9M22S incendiary rockets.If verified, this footage is evidence that Russian forces are using chemical weapons in Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.The terrifying footage was posted on Twitter by the user @Harri_Est, the founder of Ukraine Aid Operation, who tweeted that the footage was sent to him by a friend in the National Guard unit in Donbas.

Russia's despotic president Vladimir Putin are ramping up, as a Russian intelligence source has claimed that he has just three years to live.The FSB office has claimed that Putin has a “severe form of rapidly progressing cancer”.The Mirror reports how the unnamed spy also told that Putin is beginning to go blind.He said: “He has no more than two to three years to stay alive.“We are told he is suffering from headaches and when he appears on TV he needs pieces of paper with everything written in huge letters to read what he’s going to say.“They are so big each page can only hold a couple of sentences. His eyesight is seriously worsening.“And his limbs are now also shaking uncontrollably.” And the comments were backed up by the Chief of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, Major-General Kyrylo Budanov.

Vladimir Putin has worked hard to maintain a masculine, hardman appearance – but pictures have exposed his steady decline from athletic KGB agent to a feeble nutter who struggles to hold his arm out.After the dictator seized the job of Russian President in 2000, he has carefully controlled his public image with a series of shots showing him in a range of physical activities, from winning judo tournaments to riding horses topless.But Putin’s macho looks have slowly evaporated from him over the past three years and his slim face has now been replaced by a bloated look.The physical power associated with the Russian leader has also vanished recently, with clips showing him resting his arms on a table and shaking as he speaks. It has led to suggestions that Putin himself is aware of his deteriorating health and that this is one of the reasons for his brutal invasion of Ukraine.