Putin Faced New Questions About His Health
7- 12.05.2026, 9:01
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The dictator appeared on Red Square with a "swollen" and "visibly aged" face.
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is facing a new wave of questions regarding his likely poor health after appearing at a parade in Moscow on May 9.
The British tabloid Daily Mail, noting that Putin appeared in Red Square with a "swollen" and "visibly aged" face.
The publication stresses that the May 9 parade was unusually low-key and took place without armored vehicles and missiles. At the same time, the tabloid suggests, few people listened to the Russian dictator's statements during his speech at the parade, as attention was focused on his chubby cheeks.
The journalists, in particular, drew attention to the description to the video of Putin published in the Telegram channel of Anton Gerashchenko, a member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the 8th convocation and deputy head of the Interior Ministry in 2019-2021: "The face of a 'winner' and the head of a 'superpower'."
Putin's appearance was also commented on by the Telegram channel Crimean Wind.
They noted, "History shows that many dictators visibly aged in appearance before the fall of the regime or death. Scientists attribute this to chronic stress, paranoid fear of loss of power, and isolation, which accelerate the aging of the body."
Opponent of the Russian dictator Leonid Nevzlin saw the truncated parade as a symbol of Putin's weakening grip on power, noting that "a parade that is shortened is a visualization of the current arrangement."
"A state in which the main ritual is tightened around one aging man, shrinking along with his capabilities. The regime is so arranged that the question of its future has turned into a question of one old man's health," he wrote.
Russian opposition figure Mikhail Khodorkovsky called Putin a "deeply frightened, aging dictator" and pointed out that he used the defeat of the Nazis in World War II for his propaganda purposes.
"On an empty square, with almost no equipment, under a REB dome, he [Putin] is trying to privatize someone else's victory to justify his shameful criminal war," the Daily Mail quoted Khodorkovsky as saying.
In turn, military analyst and ex-advisor to Ukraine's defense minister Alexei Kopytko, in particular, pointed out that "at the parade, the center of attention was not the leader of a superpower, but a tired old man with running eyes, who is tolerated for now. And he feels it."
"Experience and skills still help him put on the right mask when communicating, but when he is alone with himself for a second - everything shows on his face. A short, decrepit man bending under the pressure of a weight he can no longer take," Kopytko noted.
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