Former F1 chief calls Russian president ‘first-class person’ in GMB interview and blames war on Zelenskiy
: “Terrible to say this, I suppose, but apart from the fact that Hitler got taken away and persuaded to do things that I have no idea whether he wanted to do or not, he was – in the way that he could command a lot of people – able to get things done.”
He went on to criticise Zelenskiy, to the incredulity of the Good Morning Britain presenter Kate Garraway, who asked: “So just to understand you clearly, you think that President Zelenskiy should have done more to avert this war and it could have been avoided by Zelenskiy’s actions, not by a change in Putin’s actions?”was not “intentional”, adding: “And I’m quite sure Ukraine, if they’d wanted to get out of it properly, could have done.
Asked if he has had a chance to speak to Putin about “what a mess” the situation is or urged him to rethink what he is doing, Ecclestone said: “No. He’s probably thought about that himself. He probably doesn’t need reminding. I’m absolutely sure he now wishes he hadn’t have started this whole business, but [it] didn’t start as a war.”
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