EVER since Putin became Russia’s leader, he has gone to great lengths to try and build an image of himself as a big macho tough guy (who will ever forget those ridiculous pictures of him bare-chested on horseback?)

He is not tough, but he is a psychopathic, deluded bully and a coward.

Look at any picture of the man and his eyes are dead – totally devoid of any expression other than cruelty.

But, like all bullies, the Russian madman has met his match (and more) in the person of Ukraine’s ‘Churchill’ - President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is a leader in every sense of the word and has more courage, compassion and humanity in every hair on his head than the spineless barbarian in Moscow has in his entire body.

Zelensky will be remembered as a hero.

Putin will be remembered as the man who destroyed his own country and made it a pariah among the global community, just as Hitler did for Germany.

ROBERT READMAN

Norwich Avenue West, Bournemouth