The Russian president has been out of sight since his meeting with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on March 5.

Then, on Thursday, representative Dmitry Peskov assured the world that the Russian president is well and that there is “no need to worry, everything is all right,” while he even made a joke about the president’s handshake being so strong that it could “break your hand”.

However, the Swiss newspaper Blick suggests that Putin has “gone missing” not due to health issues, but because his rumored girlfriend, a former Olympic gymnast and current chairwoman of the National Media Group, Alina Kabaeva, gave birth to the couple’s daughter in Switzerland.

According to the same report, Putin has an obstetrician friend who works in a regional hospital, while several high-end sedans with Russian license plates have been seen outside the same hospital.

Furthermore, Blick claims this is actually Putin and Kabaeva’s third child together, following a son in 2009 and another daughter in 2012.

However, this would be child number five for the Russian president, since he also has two adult daughters with his ex-wife.

Back in 2008 Russian media announced that Putin and Kabaeva were engaged to be married, despite Putin still being married to his now ex-wife, Lyudmila Shkrebneva. Putin denied the reports, referring to nonsense.

More rumors cited a wedding again in 2013, after Putin was divorced.
At the time, the official Kremlin commented that any talk of a wedding was a private matter for President Putin to announce.