Politico: Putin’s not dying, Kremlin says
Top spokesperson laughs off media reports that Russian president is seriously ill.
The Kremlin has brushed off claims that Russian President Vladimir Putin is ill, after speculative media reports that he’d suffered a cardiac arrest. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov also dismissed speculation that Putin has used body doubles to cover for him in public appearances.
“Talk of Vladimir Putin’s health problems is another canard,” Peskov said, according to Russian state-owned news agency Ria.ru, adding that “everything is fine with him.”
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Update #1: Kremlin says Putin is healthy, laughs off body double rumours (Reuters)
Update #2: Kremlin Breaks Silence on Putin 'Cardiac Arrest', 'Body Double' Rumors (Newsweek)
WNU Editor: Rumors on Russian President Putin's health always makes the rounds every 3 to 4 months. As to what is my take. If Russian President Putin was seriously ill or dead, that is a Kremlin secret that cannot be kept for more than a few hours.
Alleged Ukrainian plot to kill 77 Russian pilots with poisoned cake and whiskey foiled
ReplyDeleteAn audacious plot allegedly concocted by Ukrainian intelligence operatives to wiped out dozens of Russian pilots with poisoned cake and whiskey was foiled at the last minute, according to a report.
The incident took place Saturday at the Armavir Higher Military Aviation School in Russia’s Krasnodar region.
The elite flight school located in the city of Armavir was hosting a banquet in honor of its alumni who graduated from the institution 20 years ago.
There were 77 guests at the party, among them active-duty pilots holding senior ranks in Russia’s air force, reported the Russian telegram channel Fighterbomber.
In the middle of the festivities, a deliveryman showed up carrying an enormous cake weighing more than 44 pounds and several cases of Jameson Irish Whiskey, all courtesy of the flight school’s unknown “grateful admirers,” the report stated.
While the gargantuan two-tier cake was being sliced, the much-impressed alumni busied themselves with taking selfies and posting words of thanks in their private chat groups.
At the same time, everyone at the party began trying to find out who had sent the offerings.
An official at the academy in charge of security pulled a screenshot of the deliveryman from the CCTV video, who was subsequently identified as 32-year-old Egor Semenov, a native of the occupied Ukrainian city of Melitopol.
The suspect was said to have raced to the Stavropol airport to purchase a plane ticket to Moscow, but his escape plan was thwarted by local authorities who detained him, reported the Telegram channel Baza.
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