Russian President Vladimir Putin displayed a “swollen and sore” hand that appeared covered in bulging veins during a recent press conference, igniting new speculations over his health.

Putin, whose right hand has been a source of health rumors over the years, was spotted clenching his hand tightly in discomfort during an event in which the 73-year-old addressed a crowd of loyalists on a basketball court.

The images sparked fresh speculations that the Russian dictator has been fighting a serious illness , with online sleuths claiming Putin had everything from Parkinson’s to cancer.

“There’s something wrong with Putin’s hands,” Anton Gerashchenko, a former adviser to the Ukrainian interior ministry, told East2West.

“Apart from the fact that they’re covered in blood up to the elbows, h

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