Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, who was released by Washington in an exchange for American basketball player Brittney Greener, on Saturday, December 10, expressed his support for Vladimir Putin and the attack in Ukraine.
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In an interview with the Russian media RT, he confirmed that he “yetWhile imprisoned in the US, he had a portrait of Vladimir Putin in his cell, where he was sentenced to 25 years in prison after he was arrested in Thailand in 2008. “I am proud to be Russian and our president is Putin“, he said.
The 55-year-old former Soviet army officer also said that he supports “completely» the attack on the Kremlin in Ukraine. “If I had the opportunity and the necessary skills, I would volunteer (to fight in Ukraine)he said, saying do.not understandwhy the mass attack in Moscow did not happen in 2014.
Accusations against the West
He also introduced himself again as a legal employee, but a serving businessman.for exampleto force other Russians to accept deals with Washington, which he says he refused. The person concerned also denied selling weapons to the Taliban, as alleged in US media reports. “The Taliban had put a price on my head. So how can I say that I cooperated with them? It doesn’t make sense– he assured. Finally, he accused the West of encouraging “suicide of civilization“back”drugs, LGBTQ+“.
Born in 1967 in Dushanbe, the capital of the former Soviet republic of Tajikistan, Viktor Bout studied at the Military Institute of Foreign Languages in Moscow before joining the Air Force, according to a United Nations report.
Since 1991 and the collapse of the USSR, according to his accusers, he has been able to buy weapons cheaply in former USSR military bases, then in total chaos, and resell them in several conflict zones; particularly in Africa. His possible connections with Russian services are not known.
Source: Le Figaro
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