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Andrew Osborn & Sam Elliott-Gibbs

Mikhail Gorbachev died 'bewildered and psychologically crushed' by Ukraine war

Mikhail Gorbachev died 'shocked, bewildered and psychologically crushed' by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, his long-serving interpreter has said.

Gorbachev died on Tuesday aged 91, after a long illness, undergoing treatment at the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow in recent weeks.

The last leader of the Soviet Union was deeply damaged by Moscow's worsening ties with Kyiv in recent years, Pavel Palazhchenko claimed.

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