A former protection officer for Russian President Vladimir Putin has detailed how he defected to try to help stop the war on Ukraine being waged by an increasingly paranoid “war criminal.”
“Our president has become a war criminal,” warned Gleb Karakulov, who had been a communications expert for Putin’s secretive elite personal security team, the Federal Protective Service, or FSO.
“It is time to end this war and stop being silent.”
From a secret hiding spot, Karakulov said he felt compelled to raise the alarm even though his mother fears his defection made him a “foreign agent” — and a once-close colleague called him a “scumbag.”
“Patriotism is when you love your country,” said Karakulov, who is listed as a wanted man in the Russian Interior Ministry’s public database of criminal suspects.
Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/04/05/ex-putin-protection-officer-who-fled-russia-calls-president-a-paranoid-war-criminal-fearful-of-assassination/
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