Putin will never commit suicide. We will see him in the dock - Piontkovsky

He expressed his opinion on the air of the Espreso TV channel.

"Putin does not have the courage to end his life by suicide, as Nicholas I of Russia once did. Not only Nicholas I. I will give you example of another person - Adolf Hitler, who was an incredible villain and scoundrel, but you have to give him credit - he found it in himself -  the courage to end his life by suicide. He said: "I don't want to be carried around the world in a cage afterwards.” Putin, I assure you, will never do it to himself,” explained Piontkovsky.

The political scientist believes that Putin will be tried together with all Russian war criminals

 "Putin is a pathetic coward who sits at a 10-meter table with his closest subordinates, for whom fake mothers were kept in quarantine for two weeks. He will never commit suicide. After all, we will see him in the dock at the main trial of Russian war criminals. I suggest that this process take place in the premises of the Mariupol theater, which was destroyed in the first days of the offensive on Mariupol," he added.

• On December 17, Russian leader Vladimir Putin held a day-long meeting with the commanders of the forces fighting against Ukraine.  He listened to "commanders' proposals for immediate and medium-term actions".