Oliver Stone Says Putin Had Cancer in The Years That He Shadowed Him for Project

American film director Oliver Stone said on Tuesday that Vladimir Putin has struggled with cancer during the time in which the filmmaker focused his work on the Russian president.

The Oscar-winning director told podcast interviewer Lex Fridman that Putin has overcome his cancer. "Remember this, Mr. Putin has had this cancer and I think he's licked it," he said without specifying the type of cancer the Russian president had.

The American director, who has been credited for films JFK, Scarface, and Platoon, had multiple interviews with Putin from 2015 to 2017 on topics that were not off-limits, the British radio station LBC reported on Saturday. Stone has not met Putin for 3 years, according to TDPel Media.

Stone's claims come amid ongoing speculation about Putin's health as the Russian war in Ukraine continues.

The Kremlin has not publicly commented about Putin's health since the start of the war.

Putin's health has been repeatedly questioned since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24. In April, Visegrád 24 News posted a video on Twitter speculating that the Russian president might have Parkinson's Disease.

"This is probably the clearest video of something being wrong with Putin's health. Look at his leg & hand tremors! Any doctor out there willing to weigh in? Parkinson?" Visegrád 24 News wrote on Twitter.

Another video showed Putin gripping a table during a meeting with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, prompting social media users to question Putin's health.

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