Members of Russia’s elite Federal Defense Service pull double-edged swords – box the feces of President Vladimir Putin when he travels abroad and bring them back home under armed guard. The secretly rolled dice were first reported on Thursday in the French news magazine Paris Match by two veteran reporters from Russia. According to the report, Federal Security agents collect Putin’s’s odors without smell and put them in specialized packages, which are then put in a special briefcase to return home. The magazine reports on the collections that took place during Putin’s visit to France in May 2017, as well as his 2019 visit to Saudi Arabia. Former BBC journalist Farida Rustamova wrote on Twitter that she had been told that Putin had been taking a portable toilet with him for years. 5 / My source who is an old acquaintance of Putin told me that the practice of going to the toilet on trips abroad has been going on for years and the Russian leader has been doing this since the beginning of his rule pic.twitter.com/6eGKZE8uhR – Farida Rustamova (@faridaily_) June 10, 2022 The dung of the top Muscovite is sometimes destroyed instead of returning to Russia, the scribe added, citing sources. Either way, the extremity at which Putin’s security’s state is prepared to go to keep his stool samples safe from foreign intelligence agents adds to the rampant speculation that the Russian president is not well. The reported defecation comes after a US intelligence estimate that Putin was undergoing covert treatment for advanced cancer – and increasingly paranoid about staying in power. Members of Russia’s elite Federal Security Service are packing Putin’s excrement and bringing it back to Russia as an extreme security measure. Mikhail Klimentiev / Sputnik / KremlinPutin is kept at the table to keep himself upright, signs that his health may be declining. Mikhail Klimentyev / Sputnik / Kremlin The same report said foreign governments were a key source of information for US assessments of Putin’s health. Rumors of Putin’s imminent death have been circulating since the first days of his invasion of Ukraine. In early April, reporters on the Russian show The Project reported that Putin was quite ill and was secretly attending an oncologist. This report was followed by multiple allegations, some from Telegram channels allegedly aligned with Kremlin dissidents, that Putin was undergoing various surgeries or was looking for a possible successor. Some of these rumored potential successors come from the ranks of Putin’s former bodyguards – a role widely regarded as a fast track to top-level positions in the Kremlin.
