Mikhail Khodorkovsky who is a leading political opponent of Vladimir Putin has warned the West that a war between NATO and Russia is inevitable.
The exiled opposition figure said World War III will be needed to stop the Russian autocrat.
‘The NATO countries and the Western Europe will have to fight for real,’ Khodorkovsky warned.
‘Sooner or later, they will have to…fight. The sooner they realise it, the better because Putin can’t stop.
‘Stopping for him is death.’
His warning comes as Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky called on the UK government to provide airpower in a speech in London on Wednesday.
Khodorkovsky, who was jailed by Putin for a decade before fleeing to Britain, told Khodorkovsky Live ‘the first year of the war was just a try out’ and that ‘everything is beginning just now’, per DailyMail.
He warned Putin can only maintain stability ‘in the conditions of the continuation of the war’.
Khodorkovsky was Russia’s wealthiest man, worth an estimated $15billion, before falling foul of Putin.
He was jailed for a decade and was eventually released from jail with a pardon in 2013, and went into exile.
He is now based in Britain.
