Viktor Medvedchuk, the Ukrainian traitor Putin wanted to install in place of Zelenskyy.

Ariane Chemin, Anna Koriagina   Le Monde7 April 2026
Captured in April 2022 as he tried to flee Ukraine, the former MP and oligarch now lives in exile in Russia.

As a lawyer in Kyiv in 1980, he sent his client, the great Ukrainian poet Vasyl Stus, to his death.