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Ukraine’s intel chief says Putin has several serious illnesses – report

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According to the Daily Mail, Russian President Vladimir Putin is suffering from “several serious illnesses,” including cancer, but “will not die tomorrow.”

Kiev military spy chief Kyrylo Budanov believes the Russian leader has a “few more years” in him.

According to the major-general, Putin was the target of an assassination attempt soon after launching his invasion of Ukraine.

According to the Daily Mail, he stated that the failed bid was made by Caucasus representatives but provided no further details.

Budanov, 36, confirmed that the Ukrainians believe Putin has cancer in an interview with Ukrayinska Pravda, but did not add to an advance excerpt from the interview that revealed an apparent assassination bid on him.

“He has several serious illnesses, one of which is cancer. But it is not worth hoping that Putin will die tomorrow. He has at least a few more years. Like it or not, but it’s true,” he said.

Budanov claimed Putin was mentally ‘confused.’

“Here we can argue a lot about the state of the dictator, who thought he would capture the whole country [Ukraine] in three days and raise the Russian flag on the administration building in Kiev,” he said, Daily Mail reported.

“And for the third month in a row, declaring that he has the second and sometimes the first army in the world, he cannot cope, in his words, with backward non-state Ukraine,” Budanov said.

Putin has’significantly diminished people’s access to people.’ He admits “quite a few people” and “keeps everyone else at a distance,” he adds.

When asked if he believes Putin is grooming a successor, he said his medical condition has caused him to be “manic.”

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