Vladimir Putin ‘really believed he would be received in Ukrainewith flowers’ when he launched the biggest war in Europe since 1945, an exiled Russian oligarch has declared.Mikhail Khodorkovsky claimed the Russian tyrant ‘nowadays lives in his own world’ and insisted that ‘in the world he has created around him over the last 20 years he really believed he would’ be welcomed by people in the former Soviet republic as a liberator’.Rubbishing allegations that Putin has gone ‘mad’, the former oil tycoon told BBCRadio 4’s Today programme: ‘Everything that is happening today, is totally unexpected [to him]’.
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