{"id":169051,"date":"2023-01-01T13:37:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T13:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=169051"},"modified":"2023-01-01T13:37:33","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T13:37:33","slug":"fresh-putin-health-fears-as-he-suffers-coughing-fit-during-new-years-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/fresh-putin-health-fears-as-he-suffers-coughing-fit-during-new-years-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Putin health fears as he suffers coughing fit during New Year’s speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vladimir Putin broke out in a coughing fit during his annual New Year\u2019s Eve speech, sparking further suspicions his health is failing.<\/p>\n

The Russian dictator appeared in front of Russian service people to make the monologue, meant to be a rousing message to the Russian people, but the power was sapped from it as he broke out in a coughing fit.<\/p>\n

Rumours about his failing health have been ongoing for many months, with the 70-year-old often making public appearances looking worse for wear.<\/p>\n

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In a clip posted to Twitter by journalist Francis Scarr, part of Putin\u2019s speech is shown in a seven-second clip in which he hurriedly clears his through three times, each time sounding like he has less control over it.<\/p>\n

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The speech, with people dressed in military equipment behind him, saw the autocrat make a rambling speech about the difficult year Russia had had and the hard decisions its leaders had had to make. <\/p>\n

Once again, he promised victory for Russia over the \u201cneo-Nazis\u201d that Russian propaganda has attempted to create in Ukraine and claimed that the West was giving everything it had to use Ukraine as a tool to damage Russian sovereignty. <\/p>\n

"The West lied about peace," he said. "It was preparing for aggression … and now they are cynically using Ukraine and its people to weaken and split Russia.<\/p>\n

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