There are a growing number of unconfirmed reports allege the 69-year-old president has cancer and that his health is deteriorating quickly

A Russian spy claims the 69-year-old president has cancer and is losing his sight and suffering from headaches. He is also shaking uncontrollably and needs pieces of paper with everything written in huge letters to read what he is going to say.

“We are told he is suffering from headaches and when he appears on TV he needs pieces of paper with everything written in huge letters to read what he’s going to say,” the Russian officer commented. The officer from the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia has claimed Putin ‘has no more than two to three years to stay alive’ due to ‘a severe form of rapidly progressing cancer’.

Messages apparently seen by FSB defector Boris Karpichkov from an unidentified Russian spy also claim Putin is losing his sight and suffering from headaches.

“They are so big each page can only hold a couple of sentences. His eyesight is seriously worsening.” The spy added that Putin’s limbs are “now also shaking uncontrollably”.

The hugely popular Russian Telegram channel General SVR claimed Mr Putin might be incapacitated for a short time after surgery.

Concerns for Mr Putin’s health have grown after Christopher Steele the UK MI6 officer who was tasked I to looking into Russian electoral interference in 2016 at the time he met with Putin in Moscow the Russian leader left meetings for medical treatments, and an oligarch with close ties to the Russian leader said he is “very ill with blood cancer”.