Vladimir Putin is a “war criminal” who is “pathologically afraid for his life”, a former protection officer of the president who defected from Russia has said.
In an incendiary interview with Dossier, Gleb Karakulov, 35, a captain in the Federal Guard Service, pleaded with his former colleagues to come forward with evidence against Putin and end the war in Ukraine.
“I would like to address Russian officers, including the FGS officers,” Karakulov, who escaped to safety via Istanbul, said. “You have information that is not broadcast on television. I have only seen a tiny part of it. Come forward, support me [with more evidence]. You will help our citizens to learn the truth.”
He went on: “How many nameless victims of this war are there, how many of them are children? How many more such victims are required before you stop putting up with it?
“What is happening now in Ukraine, all this destruction, this war of aggression, terrorism, and genocide of the Ukrainian people – there is no other word for it – all this is a criminal offence.
“Our president has become a war criminal.”
In a message to the Russian people, Karakulov said Putin had “lost touch with the world” having lived in an “an information cocoon for the past couple of years, spending most of his time in his residences, which the media very fittingly call bunkers.”
Putin is “pathologically afraid for his own life,” he said, explaining that the president “surrounds himself with an impenetrable barrier of quarantines and an information vacuum.
“He only values his own life and the lives of his family and friends. The lives of your family and friends are of no interest to him.
“By tearing men from their families and sending them to be slaughtered in sovereign Ukraine, he shows he does not care in the least about what is happening to our country and Ukraine, about the fact that he brings trouble, destruction, and death to the brotherly people of Ukraine and to us.”
In his closing remarks, Karakulov declared that Putin’s “criminal war” must be ended as soon as possible.
“Life is the highest value. We have forgotten it in this country. People are considered cannon fodder.
“This will continue to be the case as long as we remain silent. This war has to end and it is time to break the silence.”
Source: Independent
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