On Thursday, the Telegram channel General SVR announced the information that the President of Russia Vladimir Putin died in his residence in Valday, and after that, the Kremlin announced to deny these allegations.
“Russian President Vladimir Putin died tonight at his residence in Valday. At 8:42 pm Moscow time, doctors stopped resuscitation and pronounced him dead,” the channel saidyesterday.
General SVR has long claimed that the Russian president is suffering from cancer and that he is terminally ill. The channel also stated that there was a “coup” underway in Russia and that the security of Putin’s double, which they claimed existed for some time, had been increased.
They also stated that the doctors were blocked in the room with Putin’s body and that they were being held by the presidential security services, including Dmitry Kochnev, the director of the Federal Protective Service.
Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told RIA Novosti (a Russian state-owned domestic news agency) that the report was an “absurd news channel.”
“Such types of announcements belong to the category of fake news, which many media persistently write and discuss. This causes ridicule in the Kremlin,” Peskov explained.
Earlier this week, Peskov denied that Putin had suffered a heart attack and that the Russian president was using a body double, Klix.ba reports.
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