Putin underwent treatment for advanced cancer in April, US intelligence report says

The state of health of Russian President Vladimir Putin is a topic of intensive conversation within the administration of US President Joe Biden, after the intelligence community made its fourth comprehensive assessment at the end of May.

The US classified report says Putin appears to have resurfaced after undergoing treatment in April for advanced cancer, they told Newsweek Three U.S. intelligence leaders who have read the reports broadcast Telegraph.

The estimates also confirm there has been an attack on Putin in March, officials say.

High-ranking officials, who represent three separate intelligence agencies, voiced concern that Putin is increasingly paranoid of his ruling position -- a status that creates a difficult and unpredictable course in Ukraine. But it is one, they say, that also makes nuclear war prospects less possible.

The three officials -- one from the National Intelligence Director (DNI)'s office, a retired senior Air Force officer and one from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) -- cautions that the Russian leader's isolation makes it more difficult for American intelligence to assess Putin's status and his state of health.

And what we know is that there's an iceberg there, although covered in mist”, says the leader of DNI, who communicated with Newsweek via email and requested anonymity to discuss sensitive issues.