The state of Vladimir Putin’s health has been the subject of much speculation since he ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Rumors about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s health are swirling again following the leak of hundreds of pages of Defense Department documents about the war in Ukraine and sensitive national security issues.
One of the leaked Pentagon files, found online on a social messaging platform called Discord includes the claim that on February 17 Ukraine learned of an alleged Russian plot to “throw” the war in Ukraine by March 5. It states that this was likely an attempt to sabotage the Russian president when he was allegedly scheduled to start a round of chemotherapy.
The sensitive government documents were found online in March in a small Discord chatroom of about two dozen teenagers called Thug Shaker Central. The chat group’s leader was likely Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard’s intelligence wing, who was taken into custody without incident on Thursday in connection with the leak.
The Pentagon has described the leak as a “deliberate, criminal act.
