It has been revealed that Vladimir Putin’s top bodyguards bag up his feces while he is overseas so that it can be brought back to Russia with him.
According to Paris Match, members of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Federal Protection Service (FPS) collect the excrement in specific packets, which are then stowed in a separate briefcase for the ride home.
The dreadful procedure is said to be carried out to ensure that foreign powers do not gain access to information on Putin’s health or prospective cures.
Reporters It was done during travels to France in May 2017 and Saudi Arabia in 2019, according to Regis Gente, author of two books on Russia, and Mikhail Rubin, who has covered the nation for over a decade.
Farida Rustamova, a former BBC journalist, appeared to confirm the unusual story on Twitter, claiming that she was aware of Putin using a “special private restroom” during a trip to Vienna.
According to her, the Kremlin leader has traveled with a portable toilet’since the beginning of his authority,’ according to an unnamed source.
Since his decision to unleash his disastrous invasion of Ukraine on February 24, Putin’s health has been the subject of considerable gossip and speculation.
Unconfirmed claims indicate the 69-year-old is suffering from cancer, with an FSB officer suggesting he had ‘no more than two to three years to live.’
After falling ill after a phone discussion with military chiefs, Putin was claimed to require immediate medical help.’
During the Victory Day procession in Moscow’s Red Square in May, he was seen wheezing and huddling under a large blanket.
Footage from a meeting with Belarusian President and close ally Alexander Lukashenko in February also showed him shaking excessively, fueling speculation that he had Parkinson’s disease.
According to some accounts, the tyrant may already be deploying body doubles to hide his ailing health.
The practice of studying faeces for intelligence purposes is not new.
Igor Atamenko, a former Soviet agent, told the BBC that Joseph Stalin spied on Mao Zedong and other foreign leaders by analyzing their feces in a laboratory.
When he went to Moscow in 1949 to collect trash to be examined and utilized to construct psychological profiles, he said special toilets were installed for him to use.