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Exiled Russian oligarch says Putin doesn’t just want to annex Ukraine anymore, he’s trying to ‘destroy’ it

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A Russian oligarch in exile said Russian President Vladimir Putin’s wartime tactics in Ukraine mirror those of Adolf Hitler in World War II.Alexander Demyanchuk/AP

  • An exiled Russian oligarch said Putin’s goal has shifted beyond annexation to destroying Ukraine.

  • “He destroys Russian-speaking cities, he destroys human beings,” said Leonid Nevzlin.

  • “This is his way to take revenge — against Ukraine and against Zelenskyy,” Nevzlin added.

An exiled Russian oligarch said he believes Russian leader Vladimir Putin has gone beyond trying to annex Ukraine and now wants to “destroy” the country.

Leonid Nevzlin, a former oil tycoon who was forced to flee Russia two decades ago, weighed in this week on what he thinks Putin intends to do next.

Nevzlin said in an interview published by The Times of Israel on Saturday that Putin was likely first looking to annex Ukraine, Moldova, and Belarus but speculated that “everything has changed.”

“Putin is trying to destroy Ukraine. We understand it from this unbearable violence and the horrific nature of this war,” Nevzlin said, per the outlet.

“He destroys Russian-speaking cities, he destroys human beings. This is his way to take revenge — against Ukraine and against Zelenskyy,” Nevzlin told The Times, referring to Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Per the outlet, Nevzlin also posited that Putin’s wartime tactics mirror how Adolf Hitler fought during World War II.

Watch: Ex-CIA officer says Putin could be at risk of being killed by his inner circle

“Did you see the field in Donbas that was sown with bombs and explosives? That’s his vision for Ukraine,” Nevzlin told The Times, referring to deadly litters of unexploded bombs and mines that remain embedded in combat zones.

Per the outlet, he added that the war, which began on 24 February, would likely “go on for a long time.”

Nevzlin is a part of a vocal group of Russian elites who have broken with Putin to protest the war in Ukraine.

In March, he called Putin a “psychopath.” In this weekend’s interview, Nevzlin said the Russian president was “not a state leader but a leader of a mafia with a vengeful and cowardly personality.”

Other oligarchs have also hit out at Putin in recent months.

In June, Mikhail Khodorkovsky — a Russian oligarch who was once Russia’s richest man — told the Financial Times that he thought Putin had stepped onto a path in Ukraine that would “eventually” lead to regime change in Russia.

“Had it not been for so many casualties, I would have said that I’m actually quite happy because he has embarked on a route that is going to lead to his demise,” said Khodorkovsky, per the outlet.

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