Can we believe anything Sergey Lavrov says?

So now we know. Vladimir Putin is fit and well and raring to go and there is absolutely nothing wrong with him. This is thanks to Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, who has denied that his beloved leader is ill with cancer or anything else. He suggested we just look at the Russian leader to be convinced by his supreme health. Well actually Putin looks ghastly, pasty-faced, puffed-face, skin stretched like he has Botox every day, and a degree of instability when standing. So, sorry, Lavrov, I look at your leader and think this guy is not well. But Lavrov says otherwise. But of course whatever Lavrov says about anything has to be treated with a very large pinch of Siberian salt. Obviously he is not going to confirm that Putin is ill because he would get the chop instantly, but the way he dismissed reports/rumours that the Kremlin boss was nearing his end was so tyical of Lavrov. He likes to give the impression that he is a very superior being and that the rest of us are mere shrimps. It's a brave reporter who asks awkward questions of the Russian foreign minister but he poo poos everything anyway. William Burns, CIA director and the man who knows Putin better than most after years of diplomatic service in Moscow and as holder of the secret files on the puffy leader, has decribed him as cocky, cranky, aggrieved and insecure. That seems to sum up Putin very well. If he IS suffering from blood cancer as is being reported, then the whole combination is pretty alarming. Whatever Lavrov claims.