New intrigue has emerged over warmonger Vladimir Putin’s health with a video showing him unable to use his right arm when he is attacked by mosquitoes.
The Russian President is also seen apparently limping as he walks next to the daughter of his defence minister Sergei Shoigu.
The footage is from a weekend of activities marking Navy Day in Russia during which Putin said the navy would receive new hypersonic missiles.
Shoigu’s daughter Ksenia, 31, was showing around a military museum for which she heads.
Putin is seen being attacked by mosquitoes on the right side of his face.
His right arm hangs limp by his side and he instead uses his left hand to shoo away the insects.
The Kremlin president is also seen walking awkwardly, evidently with a limp, alongside Shoigu’s daughter with her father also present.
These are the latest videos suggesting that Putin, aged 69 and proud of his macho image, has undeclared health problems.
Reports have suggested he has a permanent squad of doctors close to him when he travels around Russia or abroad.
There have been claims - from Ukraine and elsewhere - that body doubles are sometimes used when Putin is unable to attend an event.
Ukraine’s head of military intelligence Major-General Kyrylo Budanov alleged a lookalike was deployed when he arrived in Tehran earlier this month.
He said: “Please look at the moment of Putin's exit from the plane. Is it Putin at all?”
On his Tehran trip, he met Iran’s leadership plus Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
In one video, Erdoğan kept Putin waiting, with the Russian ruler appearing ill at ease as he shuffled his feet and made strange facial movements, again leading to speculation over his health.
General SVR channel has claimed that Putin is suffering from serious illnesses including cancer, Parkinson’s disease and an schizoaffective disorder.
This channel is reportedly authored by an exiled Kremlin lieutenant-general insider who is known by the alias Viktor Mikhailovich.
However, CIA director William Burns said recently that Putin was “too healthy” and that there was no intelligence he was ailing.
But Russian political scientist Valery Solovey, who has long claimed the Kremlin leader - who in February launched a war in Ukraine - is suffering major health problems.
“The Americans, the CIA particularly, have information on the real state of health of the Russian president,” he said.
“They definitely know that he has serious troubles, including mental ones.”
Solovey, a former professor at Moscow prestigious Institute of International Relations [MGIMO] who claims inside knowledge of Putin’s condition, suggested that the “too healthy” comment was made because the US is involved in behind the scenes negotiations with Russia.
The Kremlin insists Putin is in good health, and there are even rumours his “mistress” gymnast Alina Kabaeva, 39, is expecting a new baby.
Shoigu’s forces are accused of atrocities in their conduct of the war in Ukraine.
Ksenia has defended him saying: “My pride, my guiding star, my dad… proud to be your daughter.”
Earlier in the war there were claims that Shoigu, 67, had suffered a heart attack, and requested to resign, but Putin refused him.
In March, there was confusion over her support for the way as she posed in Ukrainian blue and yellow colours with her baby daughter, Shoigu’s grandchild.
