A viral video suggests there’s reason to believe Russian President Vladimir Putin is hiding a secret even as the eyes of the whole world are trained on him.
Nearly two weeks into Russia’s invasion into Ukraine, rumors about the leader’s health — including one theory that he’s experiencing cognitive decline because of Parkinson’s disease — have resurfaced with a vengeance.
While the Kremlin has denied such claims, a video clip from a meeting just before the invasion between Putin and Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus, perhaps tells a different story.
The clip shared on platforms such as Reddit and Twitter appears to show the Russian president putting a shaky right hand to his chest before using an awkward kick of his right foot as he steps forward to greet Lukashenko in Moscow on Feb. 18.
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An AFP News Agency video from that event begins just after this greeting and shows a more steady Putin, though it supports the claims of the clip’s origin.
Though it would seem odd that Putin would have a public meeting while exhibiting such symptoms, it’s notable that Belarus, which shares a border with both Russia and Ukraine, would later become a launching site for Putin’s attack on Ukraine, Reuters reported.
There may be other explanations for these movements, but a man purporting to be a nurse further uncovered the significance of Putin’s tremor and gait in a TikTok clip that had nearly 300,000 likes by Thursday afternoon.
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“Nurses and medical professionals, I’m gonna show you a video and this is why we should be terrified,” the user — @musclesandnursing — said before rolling the clip.
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