War historian professor Anthony Glees says Putin has little regard for human life apart from his own and reckons anyone who dares to cross him will be ‘met with death’
Russian President Vladimir Putin is a ruthless dictator (Image: Getty Images)
A world-renowned war expert has delivered a chilling assessment of Vladimir Putin, warning that anyone who gets close to the Russian leader does so at their own peril.
Professor Anthony Glees said: “There’s no doubt at all that Putin is a very dangerous man to get close to and since he exercises total dictatorial control over the Russian economy and Russia’s armed forces, if you’re in a leading position, a general or CEO of a Russian state concern, you are, by definition, close to Putin. And that puts you in mortal danger.”
The mysterious and often deadly fates of those in Mad Vlad’s inner circle have long baffled Western intelligence agencies.
Officials are left questioning whether the spate of deaths – too numerous to be mere coincidence – are the result of calculated assassinations, perhaps orchestrated by Putin himself, the Ukrainian secret services, or genuinely tragic suicides.
In September 2022, Ravil Maganov, boss of oil giant Lukoil, and critic of Putin died after he fell out of a window. Earlier that year, Dan Rapoport, a prominent opposer of the Ukraine war, was found dead outside an apartment building in Washington DC in August.
Then in December 2023, pro-Putin regional politician Vladimir Egorov was found dead after falling from the third-floor window of a home in the Siberian district of Tyumen Oblast.
Russia’s high suicide rate only adds a grim layer to the puzzle, exacerbated by the miseries inflicted on ordinary people under Putin’s rule.
The expert reckons that some analysts argue these deaths are just bad luck and caution against forming some kind of pattern. Yet, Professor Glees disagrees with them and claims that the evidence paints a far darker picture.
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He insisted: “In my view they are entirely wrong. The bulk of these deaths are without doubt the work of Vlad, Russia’s killer king. Some, happily, the work of Ukraine’s skilled spooks or its fine soldiers scoring bulls-eyes on their targets.”
Indeed, Putin’s lethal reputation is far from limited to his political allies. Millions of Russian citizens have suffered under his iron-fisted control, particularly since the start of the war in Ukraine.
According to Professor Glees, Putin bears direct responsibility for the deaths and maiming of over one million people.
His cruelty extends beyond his borders: the UN Commission investigating the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airways Flight MH17 confirmed that Putin was personally responsible for the deaths of 283 passengers and 15 crew, shot out of the sky by Russian missiles.
“The only life he cares about is his own. Any hint of opposition is met with death,” warned Professor Glees.
This comes after Mad Vlad recently issued an ominous threat to Russia’s top legal mind in a bizarre rant. Demanding that the judicial system project strength, Putin invoked a famous line from a mid-century Soviet crime film, telling the assembled judges: “A thief must be in jail.”
“The essential principle – and we all learned this during our time at university – is that punishment must be inevitable,” he declared.
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