Ukraine-Russia war LIVE – Panicked Putin desperate for way to save face before he’ll end invasion, oligarch claims

VLADIMIR Putin is desperately looking for a way to save face before he’ll consider ending his invasion of Ukraine, a sanctioned oligarch has claimed.

Oleg Tinkov, 52, is a Russian banking millionaire famous for his ice-breaking superyacht who was sanctioned by the West in the days after Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine.

Yet even he has now taken to social media to blast the war as “crazy”, and condemn Russia’s generals who are “waking up with a hangover” to realise they have a “s**tty army”.

“And how will the army be good, if everything else in the country is sh*t and mired in nippotism [sic], servility and servility?” he said on Instagram.

He went on to plead with the West to “please give Mr. Putin a clear exit to save his face and stop this massacre“, saying he feels the tyrant won’t end the invasion until he can do so without humiliation.

The oligarch’s claims come as Ukrainian fighters in Mariupol have been offered a fresh ultimatum to surrender despite every single soldier rejecting the same offer on Tuesday.

Follow our Russia-Ukraine live blog below for up-to-the-minute updates…