“Our president has become a war criminal.' Here's what Gleb Karakulov, an officer in Vladimir Putin’s elite personal security service who defected in October, had to say about the Russian leader and the war in Ukraine.
“Our president is cut off from the world, he lives in an informational vacuum,” Karakulov said. “He is pathologically afraid for his life. He has surrounded himself with an impenetrable barrier of quarantine and a lack of any information from the internet.”Karakulov said he has taken more than 180 trips with the Russian president, and contrary to widespread speculation, Putin appears to be in good health.
“I can understand why he’s so isolated and why he must be very cautious about any external contacts. It’s understandable,” said Tatiana Stanovaya, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “Half of the world wishes him dead.”The rare defection of a Russian insider raises questions about how deep public support for the war in Ukraine actually runs in Russia.
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