Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone, who was granted unprecedented access to Vladimir Putin for two years, claims the Russian president had suffered from cancer, and that he believed he had overcome it.
Speaking in a new podcast, Stone said Putin had suffered from cancer, and that he believed he had overcome it
Speaking in a new podcast, Stone said Putin had suffered from cancer, and that he believed he had overcome it.The claim comes amid acute speculation that the Kremlin leader is hiding an acute health condition such as cancer or Parkinson’s.mysterious disappearances, long tables and his sometimes bloated, trembling appearanceStone said that he has not met Putin for three years, and his in-depth interviews with him were between 2015 and 2017.
Explaining why Putin may have misjudged the invasion of Ukraine, Stone speculated that ‘perhaps he lost touch – contact – with people’.‘You would think he was not well informed perhaps, about the degree of cooperation he would get from the [ethnic Russians] in Ukraine.It could also be that his ‘isolation from normal activity’ and no longer meeting people ‘face to face’ due to health concerns for Putin over Covid may have led to errors.
He appeared to refer to notes before making the comment that Putin had suffered an oncology condition which he had ‘licked’.An investigation by Russian independent journalists found that Putin was surrounded permanently by a large medical team led by a specialist thyroid cancer surgeon.
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