Russian President Vladimir Putin was so out of contact with actuality when he launched the Ukraine invasion that he was incensed his troops weren’t welcomed with flowers, an exiled Russian oligarch revealed Sunday.
“At first he wished to vary the ability in Kyiv ... and was anticipating that this could be met with flowers thrown within the streets by Ukrainian individuals,” Mikhail Khodorkovsky, onetime CEO of Russian oil big Yukos, stated on CNN.
However when Ukrainians fought again because the invasion was launched, Putin went “insane,” stated Khodorkovsky, an outspoken Putin critic who spent 9 years in a Russian jail.
“The truth that the individuals in Kharkiv [also failed to] meet him with flowers, it not solely simply angered him, I actually assume it drove him actually insane. That’s when he began bombing Kharkiv and Kyiv,” Khodorkovsky stated.
Former Russian Deputy Power Minister Vladimir Milov instructed CNN on Saturday that the shocking warfare in Ukraine has “devastated” high officers within the Kremlin and that many “Russian elites” might lose religion in Putin. That’s dangerous for Putin, who could possibly be compelled from energy in a matter of months, he warned.
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