Putin branded ‘cold, cruel & black evil’ by Ukrainian former PM
UKRAINE’S former prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, has branded Russia’s Vladimir Putin as “absolutely rational, cold, cruel, black evil”.
She also claimed he is determined to go down in Russian history alongside Stalin and Peter the Great.
In an exclusive interview, Tymoshenko dismissed the suggestion that the Russian president was “crazy”.
“He acts according to his own dark logic,” she said.
“He’s driven by this idea of historic mission and wants to create an empire. That’s his hyper-goal. It comes from a deep inner desire and belief.”
Tymoshenko, was the leader of the 2004 Orange revolution and prime minister twice. She also had several one-on-one meetings with Russian President Putin.
Close up, Putin was “always cautious”, she added.
“He is from a KGB school”.
Before Russia’s full-scale invasion in February, he made no secret of his belief that there was “no such nation as Ukraine, and no such people as Ukrainians”, she said.
