Vyacheslav Gladkov, the governor of Russia’s Belgorod region, reported on Telegram Friday that he had been hospitalized. “Nothing critical. I’m under medical supervision. They’ll release me today or tomorrow,” he wrote.
Gladkov said that he hadn’t planned to reveal publicly that he was hospitalized “so as not to worry anybody,” but that he was forced to make a statement after unnamed “Telegram channels” reported on his condition. Earlier, the Telegram channel 112 and the news outlet Izvestiya reported that Gladkov was suffering from food poisoning.
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