The Kremlin is being forced to deny growing rumors that Putin suffered a cardiac arrest a few days ago and regularly uses body doubles to cover up his health problems.

The Kremlin has been forced to deny growing rumors that President Vladimir Putin suffered a cardiac arrest just days ago and laughed off claims he used body doubles to hide during public appearances.

“He’s fine, it’s definitely another fake [rumour]Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, when asked about a report today, emphasized that Putin had experienced a serious health crisis on Sunday evening.

Peskov laughed in response to a new question about body doubles and denied that Putin had them.

“I can tell you that there are no doubles at work,” Peskov said.

He added: “This one [kinds of stories] belongs to the category of fake news, reported with enviable tenacity by numerous media outlets. It produces nothing but a smile [in the Kremlin].’

It is the second time this year that Peskov has been forced to deny a series of reports about the use of lookalikes, often linked to Putin’s alleged serious health problems.

But observers see the Kremlin ruler’s changing appearance over the years as possible evidence that he is replacing himself with someone else for tasks he does not want to undertake or that he considers too dangerous. The speculation started in June when he took selfies with young girls in Derbent

A recent photo of Putin with Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of the Chechen Republic, showed the Russian president bloated and blotchy.

Peskov stressed that the president who plunged Russia and Ukraine into a grueling war was fit and healthy. The rumors amounted to an “absurd farce,” he said.

Putin, a judo enthusiast who has long cultivated a “man of action” image, turned 71 on October 7 and rumors of his ill health have circulated for years.

Recently, the General SVR Telegram channel, which regularly claims that Putin is terminally ill and has cancer, claimed that he suffered a “cardiac arrest” on Sunday night.

The broadcaster said all of the Russian dictator’s recent appearances, including foreign visits, had been through dead bodies or corpses.

Doctors are said to have revived Putin and he was taken to a special intensive care unit at his official residence.

“Doctors performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation after previously determining that the president had suffered cardiac arrest,” the station reported. “Help was provided in time, the heart was started and Putin regained consciousness.”

The channel is reportedly headed by a former Kremlin lieutenant general with the pseudonym Viktor Mikhailovich. It is alleged that Putin’s top operatives and security henchmen control the doppelgangers’ activities.

In a 2020 interview, Putin denied long-standing rumors that he used body doubles, although he said he had been offered the opportunity to use one in the past for security reasons.

But observers see the Kremlin ruler’s changing appearance over the years as possible evidence that he is replacing himself with someone else for tasks he does not want to undertake or that he considers too dangerous.

The speculation arose in June when Putin made a surprise visit to the southern Russian city of Derbent just days after the failed Wagner uprising. Photos show the despot dressed like a Hollywood actor on a red carpet on a night when crowds were hiding.

The normally stoic and isolated Putin looked energized after fending off a minor civil war a week earlier and was unusually personable. He shook hands and planted kisses on the head of a young teenage girl who flocked to him and begged her mother to stop. a photo of her with the president.

In another bizarre moment, he shakes hands with an officer and appears to be trying to change into his uniform, presumably with his nuclear briefcase.

He had never greeted his security guards like that before.

The scene was a marked departure from the extreme measures of recent years that imposed strict quarantines on anyone outside Putin’s immediate circle before meeting him.

His transformative behavior – described by the Kremlin as “incredible” – has led many, including senior Russian figures, to fuel speculation that Putin’s greeting to Dagestan’s adoring fans was actually a double act.

Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow today

Putin hasn’t greeted crowds like this since before the pandemic

It comes as rumors continue to circulate about Putin’s ill health.

The Russian political scientist dr. Valery Solovey said last week: “The fact is that current President Vladimir Putin is living the last days of his earthly life.”

Solovey is a former professor at the famous Institute of International Relations in Moscow [MGIMO]a training academy for spies and diplomats.

On Thursday, he promised further statements about Putin’s health.

The head of Ukraine’s military intelligence, Lieutenant General Kyrylo Budanov, claimed that the real Putin had not been seen since June 2022.

“The one everyone knew was last seen around June 26, 2022,” he said last month.

A recent Japanese television report used AI to analyze Putin’s face, gait and voice during various appearances and concluded that he uses one or perhaps two body doubles.

Putin has taken trips to Kyrgyzstan and China and has been extremely active in travel within Russia.

Last week he visited Perm and held talks with his wartime commander General Valery Gerasimov in Rostov-on-Don after taking a “detour” to visit the military headquarters.

According to the broadcaster, they are all look-alikes who underwent cosmetic surgery and were trained for years by Russian secret services as Putin’s substitutes.

This week he met with officials in Moscow. Today he met Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov, who is also Minister of Trade and Industry.

In April, Peskov acknowledged that there were many reports of Putin’s doppelganger, but claimed that the war-killer was “mega-active”.

“You may have heard that Putin has several doppelgangers working in his place while he is in a bunker,” he said. “That’s more lies.” That’s another lie.

“You see our president. “He’s still exactly the same as he was: super active.”

Putin admitted that his aides had previously asked him about the use of body doubles, which were routine for former Kremlin leaders Stalin and Brezhnev. Putin said he rejected the plan.