Putin’s exit ‘being discussed’ in Kremlin as elites and allies turn on him

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Vladimir Putin, 69, has come under scrutiny after two politicians in Russia called on the president to halt their offensive in Ukraine in a rare show of public dissent. Russia's three-month military campaign in Ukraine shows no signs of abating, despite thousands of people being killed and wounded and millions more displaced because of the invasion.Public loyalty of the country's political parties and government officials is commonplace but, during a meeting of the legislative assembly of the Primorsky Krai region yesterday (May 29), a lawmaker and a member of the Communist faction broke ranks."If our country does not halt the military operation then there will be even more orphans in our country," Leonid Vasyukevich, 69, read from the statement, according to a video of the meeting."During a military operation, people became disabled.

Russian despot Vladimir Putin may already be dead, British intelligence chiefs believe.Senior MI6 bosses say the Russian president has been seriously ill and that if he had died, his cronies would hush it up to keep power for as long as possible.A source told the Daily Star Sunday that Putin’s recent media appearances had very probably been pre-recorded.A body double may also have been used at public events, like the Moscow Victory Day Parade earlier this month.One intelligence source said: “Putin is very ill and when he dies his death will be kept secret for weeks, if not months.“There is also the possibility that he is already dead. It’s impossible to know.

Putin has ordered troops to fire a terrifying and “unstoppable” new hypersonic missile at targets in the White Sea, Moscow claims.The destructive Zircon weapon has been developed over a period of at least four years and is capable of hitting locations a whopping 620 miles away at a speed of 7,000mph.Russia ’s Ministry of Defence told Kremlin-backed news organisation TASS: "Today, the lead frigate of Project 22350 Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov fired a Tsirkon hypersonic cruise missile at a sea target position in the White Sea from the Barents Sea.” They boasted their missile was able to go "so high that it prevents the opponent's air defence system from detecting its impact in time". It comes as the evil Russian President intensifies his invasion of Ukraine with a horrific “scorched earth” policy that aims to eliminate opposition in the eastern European country.

Russia's despotic President Vladimir Putin has ramped up his invasion of Ukraine, and is now employing a “scorched-earth policy”, according to a top Ukrainian commander. Petro Kuzyk has been leading the National Guard Rapid Reponse brigade in the fight to defence the embattled city of Severodonetsk.The area has become Putin's main target of violence in recent weeks, as he attempts to save face in the invasion which has gone on around three months longer than he had originally planned.Commander Kuzyk told local media that around 500 Russian shells were hitting the city every hour.He said, in a video interview showing him sitting on the floor, smoking a cigarette while surrounded by supplies: “We have intelligence that huge columns of tanks are moving in the direction of Severodonetsk.“This tactic has been tested, it does them little good, but thanks to massive shelling, they can move forward — because they are destroying positions, trenches and buildings step by step.“They did not capture Rubizhne — they wiped it off the face of the earth.“We are catastrophically short of artillery-systems, accurate, counter-battery systems that destroy enemy artillery from a long distance.“Here, they still have an advantage in artillery.”The Eastern city has become the new focus of Putin's troops.The area is now being dubbed the “new Mariupol”, after Putin's forces levelled that city early on into the invasion.Commander Kuzyk added: “We do not have enough multiple launch rocket systems that hit the target.“We need to more or less close the sky — it’s either serious air defence systems, or fighter aircraft.

Ukraine invasion, Brits would have to start eating each other. The bizarre claim – on a channel owned by a Vladimir Putin supporter – quoted presenter Jeremy, 62, joking earlier this month it would be only a matter of time before “people eat their neighbours”.

Vladimir Putin’s nuclear “doomsday arsenal” could obliterate life on Earth – but the Russian President may not be able to deploy the missiles alone, an expert has claimed. With the war in Ukraine having dragged on for over three months, the threat of Putin deploying his nuclear missiles has so far prevented NATO forces from intervening directly in the conflict.

Vladimir Putin's bluff after suggesting over half of their nuclear missiles "do not work". The news comes after a fresh threat to the West this week, with the head of Russia's space agency claimed the country has 50 new nuclear missiles.Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Roscosmos and a close allay of the Russian president, said an array of Sarmat-2 missiles – measuring 14 storeys tall and weighing 208 tons – will be deployed by the autumn to remind the world of Russia's capabilities.But in March, three US officials with intelligence on Russian warheads claimed that around 60 percent of Moscow's missiles are in fact inoperative.Fears of a nuclear-armed conflict have been one of the main themes of the debate about how to deal with Russia after the Kremlin ordered its invasion of Ukraine back in early February.

Vladimir Putin’s closest allies has issued a bizarre vision of a "new world order" to the UN. Since Russian President Putin invaded Ukraine in February he’s been blacklisted by almost every major country, except a handful, such as Belarus.Now the country's president Alexander Lukashenko has sent a letter to UN Secretary-General António Guterres to explain Putin’s sordid reasoning for violating Ukraine’s sovereignty.According to Belarussian TV, the letter, dated May 18, urged the UN to welcome in a "new world order" where all sovereign states have "security guarantees" and warned that the Ukraine conflict would have "devastating consequences" if not.Lukashenko repeated Putin’s threat that, unless “security guarantees” were forthcoming, the Ukraine war would become “protracted with devastating consequences”.He reportedly said: “Belarus calls on the countries of the world to unite and prevent the regional conflict in Europe from escalating into a full-scale world war.”He went on to stress that the US and NATO were violating Putin’s grand ‘new world order’ by sending weapons to Ukraine.He continued: “Together and each in our role, we can do a lot today: refrain from the supply of weapons.”“Today, the world, unfortunately, forgets that Belarusians have never been a threat to any of their neighbours.“We are not aggressors, as some states try to present us.

Vladimir Putin's attack on Ukraine by unanimously chanting ‘f*** the war’. Footage has emerged of the of the defiant scene which is thought to have taken place at a show for Russian band Kis-Kis on Friday night.Shortly after Russian troops moved in on Ukraine, Putin introduced new legislation targeting free speech.At least 2,000 people have been fined and 133 others are facing prison time for their supposed non-compliance.However, in spite of the legislation, this hasn't stopped the defiance as the events in St Petersburg came hot on the heels of Russian singer Yuri Shevchuk, from 1980s band DDT, charged with "discrediting" Putin’s military for sharing his opposition to the war at his show last week.