Vladimir Putin ’s “time is running out” claims an expert, amid speculation the Russian president’s health is failing as fast as his war in Ukraine.

Reports have been leaked from Moscow for months suggesting the 69-year-old is undergoing treatment for a litany of illnesses, such as Parkinson’s and cancer.

The inability of his forces to wipe out the Ukrainian threat has taken an additional toll on his health, with rumours of secret visits to doctors spread around the Kremlin.

Now University College London Professor Mark Galeotti, who has written a biography of Putin, says the end may soon be nigh for the warmonger.

More fears have been spread on Putin's failing health
More fears have been spread on Putin's failing health 
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He told Mail Online : “Time is running out. He’ll be 70 in October and he is clearly unwell. “Rumour has it that he may have Parkinson’s disease, or thyroid cancer or blood cancer. I am not a doctor, but I have been watching Putin closely for 25 years and there is something very wrong.

“It was strange to see him — the man who made such political capital out of his black belt in judo, his ice-hockey and bare-chested horse-riding — sitting at the Victory Day commemoration of triumph over the Nazis in Moscow on May 9 surrounded by ten bodyguards and with a blanket over his knees.