VLADIMIR Putin is a modern-day Hitler and Russia is doomed to the same fate as Nazi Germany, the head of Ukraine ’s national security council has warned.
Oleksiy Danilov, who is Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ’s most trusted security adviser, dismissed any idea of a deal whereby Russia would keep Crimea, which it annexed from Ukraine in 2014, in exchange for Ukraine getting membership of NATO.
Slamming France and Germany over previous deals that ended in Russia taking more land, he told Sky News: “This is our constitution, this is our laws, this is our land.
“Let [European leaders] give their land to Putin... see how their community, constituents, children react.
"They made an example of Fascist Germany. Now Putin is just a modern Hitler.
"From 1941 to 1945, Germany was at war with almost the whole world. In May 1945, it was left in ruins.
"The same will happen with Russia. They are doomed to it.”
Mr Danilov praised the UK’s support for Ukraine and said he expected new PM Rishi Sunak to continue it.
It came as the UN’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, said Ukrainian leaders had invited it to inspect two sites at the centre of Russian claims Kyiv is preparing a dirty bomb.
The IAEA said its inspectors have already regularly visited the sites. Russia has offered no evidence for its allegations, which NATO dismisses.
