Russian President Vladimir Putin was rumored to have had a heart attack and had died – The truth about the speculation exposed.
Putin (real name: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin) has held continuous positions as president or prime minister since 1999: as prime minister from 1999 to 2000 and from 2008 to 2012, and as president from 2000 to 2008 and since 2012.
The former intelligence officer was alleged to have died of cancer after suffering a heart attack earlier this week.
However, a new report from the Kremlin has debunked such speculations.
Here’s everything we know about Putin’s death hoax.
Has Vladimir Putin died?
Claims the tyrant had died surfaced in a Telegram channel saying he died at his Valdai palace, just north of Moscow.
The full report in General SVR claimed: “Attention! There is currently an attempted coup in Russia!
“Russian President Vladimir Putin died this evening at his residence in Valdai at 20:42 Moscow time, doctors stopped resuscitation and pronounced death.
“Now the doctors are blocked in the room with Putin’s corpse, they are being held by members of the presidential security service on the personal orders of Dmitry Kochnev who is in touch and receives instructions from the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev.”
The incredible statement continued and spoke about what would happen next if the leader had really died.
It said: “Security for the president’s double has been beefed up. Active negotiations are underway. Any attempt to pass off a double as the president after Putin’s death is a coup.”
However, the Kremlin have issued an extraordinary message denying Vladimir Putin is dead.
But in an extraordinary denial, Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told state media RIA Novosti that the report was an “absurd information canard”.
Earlier this week Peskov also had to strongly deny rumours that Putin suffered a heart attack and reinforced that any reports of a doppelganger were false.
People have started to theorise that these fake reports are further evidence of an intense power struggle in Russia as the country struggles in its war with Ukraine.
The spokesman for this issue said: “These (kinds of stories) belong to the category of fake news, discussed with enviable tenacity by a number of media outlets. This brings nothing but a smile (in the Kremlin).”
General SVR has claimed the dictator suffered from cancer and was terminally ill.
They were also one of the first to push the theory that Putin uses a body double.
The head of Ukrainian military intelligence Lt-Gen Kyrylo Budanov has shockingly alleged the real Putin hasn’t been seen since June 2022.
He said last month: “The one, who everyone used to know, was last seen around 26 June 2022.”
A recent Japanese TV report cleverly used AI to analyse Putin’s face, walk, and voice in multiple recent appearances.
They found that he uses at least one double and potentially two.
In April, Peskov admitted that reports were rife about Putin’s doppelgängers but claimed the warmonger was “mega-active”.
He said: “Perhaps you had heard that Putin has multiple doubles, who work instead of him while he is sitting inside a bunker. This is yet more lies. This is one more lie. You see our president. He is just as he used to be – mega-active.”
The controversial channel is supposedly run by a former Kremlin lieutenant-general, known by the alias Viktor Mikhailovich.
It claims Putin’s top men and security henchmen control the activities of the various doppelgängers.
It is ignored by most political analysts as it’s run by conspiracy theorists.