Vengeful president ‘will send assassins’
VLADIMIR Putin will order assassinations in Europe if he Russia takes control of Ukraine, a former KGB officer has said.
Maj Gen Oleg Kalugin, who is safe in the
US, told the Sunday Mirror Putin would seek revenge for the sanctions imposed by Europe.
He said: “The Russians would not dare mount assassinations in the USA but because Europe has, over decades, shown weakness they assess it’s possible to do it in Europe.”
Gen Kalugin was Putin’s boss when he ran the KGB. He said: “I did not see him as particularly talented. It was the mayor of Leningrad who singled out Putin as a reliable lackey for Boris Yeltsin [then Russian leader] so he got transferred. The rest is history.
“You need to understand Putin’s psyche. He is deeply lonely. His wife left him and his daughters cut themselves off. He has delusions of grandeur and massive megalomania.
“Breaking diplomatic relations with Russia is essential. When Russians see Putin has turned the motherland into a pariah state, this will ruin his reputation inside the country. Then it’s up to his generals.”