According to former Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the West must prepare for a direct confrontation with Russia. The current developments in the war in Ukraine are said to have inevitably led to this. There is no other way to stop Vladimir Putin than a Third World War, Khodorkovsky warned.

The North Atlantic Alliance (NATO) is going to war with Russia directly, whether we like it or not. Former oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky gave a dire prediction. The portal caught his eye Daily mail.

According to him, the West’s clash with the largest country in the world will trigger a third world war. But it said it was impossible to stop Vladimir Putin through diplomatic means.

“NATO and Western European countries must prepare for total war,” said Khodorkovsky, Russia’s richest man in the 1990s.

He believed that supporting Ukraine with the supply of weapons and other military equipment and technology would soon cease. “Sooner or later they will have to fight. And the sooner they realize it, the better, because Putin can’t stop now. Quitting meant death for him,” he continued.

Khodorkovsky warned against creating illusions that eastern Ukraine would suffice for Putin. “He might take a break to completely conquer them, but then he would go ahead and calmly mobilize the people from this new territory,” he added.

NATO is deciding this week whether to send more munitions to Kiev. According to information from the head of the alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, Putin was preparing a major offensive, the newspaper recalled Mirror. Moreover, Moscow continued its provocations, on Monday sending three military planes to the Polish border.

Khodorkovsky is one of the leading post-Soviet figures. In 2001, he founded the Open Russia movement, and two years later he was sentenced to 11 years for several economic crimes. After 10 years, Putin forgave him. He later emigrated to London, from where he regularly criticized conditions in his native country.

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