State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin today, February 22, at a meeting of the State Duma on recognizing the independence of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, said that he had talked with LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who is in the hospital.
According to Volodin, Zhirinovsky wanted to speak at the meeting, but “the doctors did not let him go.” The chairman of the lower house of parliament expressed the hope that Zhirinovsky would return to participate in parliamentary sessions in March.
Meanwhile, according to Znak.com, the politician was on a ventilator. Now, according to our sources, Zhirinovsky is under sedatives, his condition is still serious.
On February 9, it became known that LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky was taken to the Central Clinical Hospital. The media wrote that doctors diagnosed the politician with bilateral pneumonia and damage to 50-75% of the lungs against the background of the coronavirus.
On February 11, it became known that the head of the Communist Party Gennady Zyuganov was hospitalized in the Central Clinical Hospital with symptoms of SARS. Zyuganov himself later denied that it had anything to do with the coronavirus. According to him, he was forced to undergo preventive hospitalization after a complex operation.
