Putin health fears as dictator mocked over haggard | Political News

Vladimir Putin is being widely mocked over his haggard and hole look as hypothesis about the Russian chief’s health intensifies.

Allegedly fearful of a coup or assassination related to the Ukraine battle, the autocrat was described as a “deeply frightened, aging dictator” by Russian opponent Mikhail Khodorkovsky after his Victory Day displaying in Moscow.

Ukrainian analyst Anton Gerashchenko highlighted an unflattering image of the 73-year-old former intelligence officer and his swollen cheeks, commenting: “The face of a ‘victor’ and the leader of a ‘superpower.’ It seems sanctions have even reached Putin’s Botox.”

Commentators pointed to a lopsided, pillow-like face, lumpy filler, mismatched cheeks, and a melting wax face. Watchdog group Crimean Wind famous: “History shows that many dictators visibly aged before the fall of their regime or their death. Scientists link this to chronic stress, paranoid fear of losing power, and isolation, which accelerate the body’s aging.”

Putin critic Leonid Nevzlin interpreted the “shrinking” parade – which displayed no navy tools for the first time in practically twenty years – as a important indicator of Putin’s weakening maintain on authority.

He remarked: “The regime is structured so that the question of its future has turned into the question of one old man’s health. Not about elections, not about political course, not about a split in the elites.

“About a cardiogram, about the looks of decrepit palms. These are the only locations where change is still doable in the nation. For this physique, like any other, has a deadline.”

Security personnel have never surrounded Putin quite so closely, he noted. “You can search for comparability with parades of earlier years.

“Security is always there, that’s protocol, but there has never been such hovering. Either Putin himself is afraid, or he’s being wound up and intimidated this way – which causes him to become fearful and paranoid.”

He seems “alone and isolated” inside his security bubble.

This comes as data from the past month confirmed Putin has suffered 7,480 personnel losses – killed, wounded, and captured – during the first week of May. That equals one casualty every 80 seconds.