Vladimir Putin has created renewed concern around his allegedly deteriorating health after the Russian leader abruptly pulled out of an annual ice hockey game this week, RadarOnline.com has learned.
Putin’s absence from the Night Hockey League, an amateur ice hockey league the Russian president himself created in 2011, marks just the latest high-profile event the 70-year-old struggling leader dropped out of at the last minute in recent weeks.
The Kremlin’s spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, confirmed Putin would not be in attendance at the annual hockey event on Wednesday.
The gala match, which Putin usually participates in, has taken place this time of the year since the league’s inception more than a decade ago. It marks Putin’s first absence from the event since 2011.
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