Arpan Rai
Mon, May 2, 2022, 5:30 a.m.
The Gazprom top official Igor Bolobuyev appeared in Kyiv last week stating that he had fled Russia to fight alongside Ukrainian soldiers in a dramatic sudden exit (Screengrab: YouTube/CNN)
The Gazprom top official Igor Bolobuyev appeared in Kyiv last week stating that he had fled Russia to fight alongside Ukrainian soldiers in a dramatic sudden exit (Screengrab: YouTube/CNN)
Russian gas executive Igor Volobuyev, who fled the country days after Moscow invaded its neighbour and emerged in Kyiv, has asked for Vladimir Putin to be hanged for his actions for launching a military assault in Ukraine.

“[Mr] Putin has to be put on trial and hanged. But only in accordance with the law,” the Gazprom vice-president told The Telegraph.

He watched the “special military operation”, as Mr Putin has termed it, unfold on his phone and received SOS calls from people who said that they needed to be saved from Russian troops who were unleashing an assault in the besieged country.

“I was glued to my phone. I felt like I was sitting in a cosy cinema watching a horror film,” Mr Volobuyev said, according to the report.

“It’s such a miserable feeling when people call you and say: ‘Russians are killing us. You work in Gazprombank. You’re an important guy. Can you do something to stop this?’”

The Gazprom top official appeared in Kyiv last week stating that he had fled Russia to fight alongside Ukrainian soldiers in a dramatic sudden exit.

“I couldn’t watch from the sidelines what Russia was doing to my homeland,” Mr Volobuev, who was born in the northeastern Ukrainian town of Okhtyrka, said.

“The Russians were killing my father, my acquaintances and close friends. My father lived in a cold basement for a month. People I had known since childhood told me they were ashamed of me,” Mr Volobuyev said.

https://ca.yahoo.com/news/want-see-putin-hanged-says-093027836.html