Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone has doubled down on his backing of Russian president Vladimir Putin despite the ongoing war in Ukraine. The 91-year-old received a fierce backlash on Thursday af…
Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone has doubled down on his backing of Russian president Vladimir Putin despite the ongoing war in Ukraine.and described the Russian president as a ‘first-class person’.Ex-F1 chief executive Ecclestone is a close friend of Russian president Putin – the two pictured here at the Russian Grand Prix in Sochi in 2018since the 1950s, currently ruling as Chairman Emeritus of the Formula One Group after stepping down as the organisation’s CEO in 2017.
Ecclestone began the interview by stating: “I don’t regret my feeling for him. He’s not the person that’s being portrayed.”“I’ll take a bullet for somebody and stand behind him for what it was. Admitting he was ‘a little disappointed’ by the consequences of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, Ecclestone continued: “But what was the alternative? Either he pulls out or the other people surrender?”
Ecclestone has also laid blame at the feet of Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky, pointing out his previous profession as a comedian and insisting a peaceful solution could have been found had he sat down with Putin for talks.Piers said: “Well, the alternative is you don’t invade sovereign countries illegally and kill everybody.
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