Putin Is No Longer ‘Sane’ Says Kremlin Insider Who Fled the Country

A Russian officer who worked closely with Vladimir Putin as a captain in the Federal Guard Service has fled the country and defected to the West, warning the world that the Russian leader is no longer “sane” and has become a “war criminal.”

Gleb Karakulov, who made his escape last October while on a trip with Putin to the capital of Kazakhstan, is now calling on both his former colleagues and Russian citizens to “break the silence” and help end the “criminal war” against Ukraine.

In a lengthy interview with The Dossier Center—which says it was able to verify his account of his time providing secure communications for Putin—Karakulov warns that today’s Putin is not the same man he’d first encountered back in 2009.

Read more at The Daily Beast.