“There are many rumors”: head of CIA about Putin’s health

CIA Director William Burns at the event of the Aspensky Forum, commenting on statements about the illness of Russian President Vladimir Putin, he said “too healthy”, and the CIA still cannot confirm the opposite.

“There are a lot of rumors about the health of President Putin. But as far as we can judge, he is too healthy. This is an informal assessment of intelligence,” Burns quoted the Russian media.

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At the end of May, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called the rumors of reports about the worsening health of the President of the Russian Federation. “I don’t think that sane people can see the signs of some kind of ailment or malaise in this person,” Lavrov said in an interview with the French television channel TF1, noting that Putin appears daily in public and everyone can watch him on the screens.