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VLADIMIR Putin was given "urgent medical assistance" earlier this week after being struck down by a "sharp sickness", according to Kremlin insiders.
Russia's president has reportedly been ordered by his doctors not to make any "lengthy" public appearances.
Vlad is said to have fallen ill while talking to his military chiefs and suffered "sharp sickness, weakness and dizziness" as he got up from his desk after a 90-minute virtual session.
The claims appeared on the General SVR channel on the messaging app Telegram, which is purportedly run by a Kremlin insider.
It said that Putin "needed urgent medical assistance" from doctors.
The channel said this sudden "dizziness" spell was the real reason Vlad's annual "Direct Line" live broadcast had been postponed with no plans for rescheduling.
This Q&A which sees Putin answer questions from ordinary Russians had been pencilled in for late June or early July, but now no date has been fixed.
General SVR said: "The postponement of the live [Direct Line] with the President indefinitely is due to the unstable health of Vladimir Putin.
"A week ago, the president was preparing to answer the questions of the Russian citizens in late June-early July.
"But his doctors advised him not to make any lengthy public appearances in the near future.
"The latest argument in favour of not speaking to the public was an incident after a recent one-and-a-half hour video-link meeting with representatives of the military bloc…
"After the meeting Putin felt a sharp sickness, weakness and dizziness while trying to get up from the table."
However, the 69-year-old did make a now-rare public appearance in Moscow this Thursday as he addressed young Russian entrepreneurs, engineers and scientists.
At an event marking the 350th anniversary of the birth of Peter the Great, Putin bizarrely bragged that he was following in the former Russian tsar's footsteps with his war in Ukraine.
Peter the Great seized land from Sweden and captured ports at Azov and the Baltic Sea in a number of successful wars in the early 18th century.
In his speech, Putin asked the audience: "What was (Peter) doing? Taking back and reinforcing. That's what he did. And it looks like it fell on us to take back and reinforce as well."
It was the first time Russia's leader had publicly admitted that his military aims were to take Ukrainian territory.
However, he also admitted that Russians face a decade of falling living standards as a result of world sanctions following the February 24 invasion of Ukraine.
At the meeting, he was asked: "So will we live better in 10 years' time?"
He replied: "Yes, in the end this [reaching the goals I have set] will lead to a better life quality."
The General SVR channel has made repeated claims in the past about Putin's alleged medical problems, including cancer and Parkinson's disease.
These claims, which the channel says are based on inside intelligence, are impossible to verify, but come amid swirling rumours in the West about the Russian president's health.
Recent pictures have shown Putin looking frailer with a puffy face, while critics say he has been gripping the side of desks during public appearances to hide his tremors.
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