’Paranoid & sick’ Putin is trapped in ‘spider web of lies’ says former Russian MP

A man who has fought Vladimir Putin from both inside the Kremlin and in exile knows a thing or two about the tyrant who rules like a “mafia boss” but thinks like a spy.  Ilya Ponomarev, a former Russian MP and leader of Russian armed resistance, revealed to The Sun that the despot is far from the all-powerful ruler he tries to be - and that he is trapped at “the centre of a spider’s web”. The Russian renegade, 48, was a member of the Russian State Duma from 2007 until 2016 when “under personal order’s from Putin” he was suddenly exiled from Russia. Now on the outside, he heads a resistance network of pro-Ukrainian guerrilla fighters and helps lead a Russian shadow cabinet forming in Kyiv to prepare for Putin’s “inevitable” demise. Continue reading: The Sun delivers breaking news, latest gossip and incredible exclusives around the world with hubs in London, New York, Scotland and Ire