Claim that Russian President Vladimir Putin suffered a heart attack is unfounded

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 Claim that Russian President Vladimir Putin suffered a heart attack is unfounded
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Unverified reports about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s health have been circulating online, driven by social media

Russian President Vladimir Putin conducts training with the forces and means of the ground, sea and air components of the nuclear deterrent forces in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023. The Kremlin denied Russian President Vladimir Putin was ill. Photos released by Russian media show Putin at meetings and public events in the days after this supposed health emergency.

The claim started on Telegram, a platform known for facilitating the spread of misinformation about Russia. The account that made the claim has shared other dubious reports about Putin’s health in the past. and foreign news outlets.claimed that Putin, 71, had suffered a heart attack. The video showed footage from a broadcast by Australian news channel 10 News First that cited"an organization called General SVR," which claimed to have"classified intelligence on the Kremlin.

The General SVR post has been viewed more than 730,000 times and forwarded to other channels 24,000 times, according to the Telegram analysis toolIn the week since the General SVR post was shared, the Telegram account gained 85,000 subscribers and now has a following of more than 453,000, pershow Putin at meetings and public events in the days following his alleged health emergency. Putin was also seen Oct.

The General SVR Telegram account has shared dubious claims about Putin’s health in the past, including one post last December that was picked up by the U.K.’s Daily Mail about theLess than 48 hours after Israel was attacked “we have hundreds of hours worth of footage but zero footage from the Ukraine war.”Under Project Hamilton, “every dollar you hold in your bank account, your wallet and even your retirement” will be confiscated and “replaced with a dangerous new totally digital dollar.

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