Machine generated contents note: ch. Twenty This Ends in Blood. ch. Two Rat Boy -- ch. Three Once and Future Spy -- ch. Four A Bomb Made of Sugar -- ch. Five War Without Pity -- ch. Six The Poisonings Begin -- ch. Seven A Death of No Significance -- ch. Eight One Lump or Two? -- ch. Nine Russia's Greatest Love Machine -- ch. Ten Mr Pleonexia -- ch. Eleven `So, sir, do you regret the killings in Ukraine, sir?' -- ch. Twelve The Leader of the Opposition Has Been Shot -- ch. Thirteen Taking On Putin -- ch. Fourteen The View from the Spire -- ch. Fifteen A War We Don't Know We Are Fighting -- ch. Sixteen The Kremlin Candidate? -- ch. Seventeen Useful Idiots -- ch. Eighteen The Underpants Poisoner -- ch. Nineteen The Kremlin Patient -- ch. Twenty This Ends in Blood.
Summary:
A gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny, charting his rise from spy to tsar, exposing the events that led to his invasion of Ukraine and his assault on Europe. In Killer in the Kremlin, award-winning journalist John Sweeney takes readers from the heart of Putin's Russia to the killing fields of Chechnya, to the embattled cities of an invaded Ukraine. In a disturbing expose of Putin's sinister ambition, Sweeney draws on thirty years of his own reporting - from the Moscow apartment bombings to the atrocities committed by the Russian Army in Chechnya, to the annexation of Crimea and a confrontation with Putin over the shooting down of flight MH17 - to understand the true extent of Putin's long war. Drawing on eyewitness accounts and compelling testimony from those who have suffered at Putin's hand, we see the heroism of the Russian opposition, the bravery of the Ukrainian resistance, and the brutality with which the Kremlin responds to such acts of defiance, assassinating or locking away its critics, and stopping at nothing to achieve its imperialist aims.
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