"Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to undergo cancer surgery and temporarily hand over power to a hardline former federal police chief, according to a new report.
Putin will transfer control of Russia’s government to Nikolai
Patrushev, head of the Russian federal police’s Security Council, while
he is incapacitated during and after the procedure, according to a video
from the mysterious Telegram channel “General SVR” on Saturday.
The channel — which is purportedly run by a former Russian Foreign
Intelligence Service lieutenant general known by the pseudonym “Viktor
Mikhailovich” — reported that Putin has been told by doctors that he
must undergo an operation. “I will say that this is the worst option,” the narrator adds.
“Patrushev is an outright villain. He is no better than Vladimir Putin.
Moreover, he is a more cunning, and I would say, more insidious person
than Vladimir Putin. If he comes to power, Russians’ problems will only
multiply.” NYP
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