KEY POINTS

  • Baba Vanga reportedly foresaw the Russian war in Ukraine
  • The blind mystic also claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin will become "lord of the world"
  • Experts said her accuracy rate was around 68%

A deceased Bulgarian mystic predicted Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Russian President Vladimir Putin's domination of the world back in the '70s, according to reports.

"All will thaw, as if ice, only one remain untouched - Vladimir’s glory, glory of Russia," Vangeliya Pandeva Gushterova, commonly known as Baba Vanga, told writer Valentin Sidorov in a 1979 interview, Birmingham Live reported.

"Too much it is brought in a victim. Nobody can stop Russia. All will be removed by her from the way and not only will be kept, but also becomes the lord of the world," said Gushterova, who died in 1996 at the age of 85.

The blind mystic also made a prophecy about the use of nuclear weapons and World War 3 before she died, according to the Daily Mail.

About 85% of Baba Vanga's predictions are accurate, her followers claimed.

However, experts who have researched the clairvoyant's prophecies said her accuracy rate was around 68%.

She correctly predicted the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster in Ukraine as well as the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, the Daily Mail noted.

In a similar story, French astrologer Nostradamus may have predicted that in 2023, a major world conflict could happen and Russian President Vladimir Putin could be assassinated, according to reports.

Nostradamus, whose real name is Michel de Nostredame, claimed over 450 years ago that a "great war" would come in 2023, the Daily Star reported.

"Seven months great war, people dead through evil," the physician wrote in Century IV, quatrain 100 of his 1555 book, "Les Prophéties," which translates into "The Prophecies."

These specific lines may allude to a World War III conflict stemming from the troubles in Ukraine arising next year, as per the Daily Star.

Nostradamus specialist Bobby Shailer also believes that a third World War could occur "within the next several years," a report by the Daily Express said.

"Nostradamus believes it will be a great protracted war, 25 to 29 years, followed by lesser battles," Shailer was quoted as saying last year.

Aside from a world war, Nostradamus allegedly predicted that Putin could be assassinated next year, according to YearlyHoroscope.org.

The website did not explain how it arrived at the prediction, only citing unnamed "experts."

None of Nostradamus' works was tied to the supposed prophecy.

The ruble, which has plummeted since the start of the Ukraine conflict, rallied after Vladimir Putin said Europe will have to pay for gas in the Russian currency
The ruble, which has plummeted since the start of the Ukraine conflict, rallied after Vladimir Putin said Europe will have to pay for gas in the Russian currency SPUTNIK via AFP / Mikhail KLIMENTYEV