Vladimir Putin is backed into a corner of his own doing and prepared to use nuclear weapons if his war fails, a military historian claims.
Sir Antony Beevor says the Russian President believes NATO's 'advance' on his own country's borders is the equivalent to the Nazis moving through Europe 80 years ago.
And the push for Finland and Sweden to join the alliance in recent days amid the despot's catastrophic invasion of Ukraine will have done little to ease his misplaced suspicions.
