Once Russia's richest man, he served ten years in prison in Siberia for challenging Vladimir Putin. Mikhail Khodorkovsky, one of the Kremlin's most feared opposition figures , has clear ideas about war with Ukraine. "I believe Putin ," explains the opposition figure now living in London, "has good reason to negotiate seriously. Economic and recruitment problems are piling up in Russia. Furthermore, the occupied territories in Ukraine are proving to be another problem and a huge cost, going forward."

Costs that, according to him, would amount to "at least two or three hundred billion dollars. If we add other territories, even more." Furthermore, Putin understands that "Trump is the best American president he could have; things will never get any better. This is the moment when he can keep everything he's achieved and regain almost complete international recognition. Before Trump, it was impossible, and after it, it will be impossible too."

(Unioneonline)