Sickly Vlad’s ‘ailing eyesight is so poor he needs extra large text on speeches – but vain despot REFUSES to wear specs’
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VLADIMIR Putin refuses to wear glasses but the result of his vanity means being caught out using extra large font in his own speeches. The Russian dictator has been caught out once again hiding his eyesight problems after new footage emerged showing glimpses of his war script printed in huge lettering and bold font.
![[Vladimir Putin reading a document at a government meeting.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/vladimir-putin-struggles-read-war-964167511.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
The warring Russian appears to refuse to wear glasses, and so is regularly seen with copious sheets of notes as he addresses the nation or issues orders to his ministers. At 72 years old he has reportedly used facial plastic surgery for years to hide the telltale signs of ageing.
![[Vladimir Putin holding a document.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/NINTCHDBPICT000964206009.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
But his eyesight is evidently not as good as it was - and the ex-KGB spy is tripped up by his own vanity when his texts are shown in large bold fonts which make him appear even older. Putin refuses to wear spectacles in public “in order not to spoil his image”, according to one report.
![[Screenshot of a tweet showing a video of Vladimir Putin reading a large-print script.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/49f76e87-f131-4958-a48b-127e3538f115.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
This week he was shown in a likely pre-recorded 52-second Kremlin video of an online meeting with officials on money allocated for the occupied naval port Sevastopol in Crimea. Unusually, he put down his notes page by page showing the large text in front of the camera.
![[a shirtless man is holding a fishing rod]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/NINTCHDBPICT000019117854.jpg?strip=all&w=630)
Only at the end did he seek to cover up the large script, gathering his papers in a way that hid the large writing. Four years ago, a report in Top News said: “We can conclude that Putin does have problems with his vision, but [his officials] are simply carefully hiding it.”.
![[Melissa Gorga and her husband, Joe Gorga.]](https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/12/vladimir-putin-committed-democracy-free-960759030.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
