Russia is suffering devastating daily long-range hits from Ukrainian missiles and drones, while also failing to make significant new territorial gains.

07:34, Fri, Mar 20, 2026 Updated: 07:46, Fri, Mar 20, 2026

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Putin has seen Russia's troops suffer devastating losses in the Ukraine war during recent days (Image: Getty)

Russia is threatening Volodymyr Zelensky with death by hanging in a squalid jail cell - just like paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Vladimir Putin’s twisted henchmen are lashing out amid new signs of the dictator’s fury at being made to look a failure by the Ukrainian leader.

The personal attacks and threats come as Russia is suffering painful daily long-range hits from Ukrainian missiles and drones, plus a failure to make new territorial gains. On Tuesday alone, Putin suffered record losses for this year of 1,700, Ukraine's general staff said.

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They suggested Zelensky would die in a jail cell. (Image: Getty)

"I consider [Volodymyr Zelensky] a criminal," declared Putin’s illegal appointee as an MP in annexed Crimea, Mikhail Sheremet.

"A war criminal who will sooner or later face the punishment he deserves. Everyone around him will end up [with a fate] similar to Epstein’s."

Col-Gen Andrei Kartapolov, Russian parliamentary defence committee chairman, said the Ukrainian leader would face trial.

“We need Zelensky alive so that he can be brought to justice for all his crimes against his own people, first and foremost, and against the people of Russia,” he demanded.

Branding him a “crooked little thief” and an “illegitimate” president, he claimed Zelensky would be forced to sign a surrender document on Russian terms for peace.

He said: “We need someone who is capable of organising the signing of these very peace agreements once we reach them.”

Kartapolov also vowed that Russia would strike any country which supplies Ukraine with components for a nuclear bomb, claiming with no evidence that Moscow had thwarted such an effort, involving Britain.

“This…is a direct threat to our country,” he claimed. “We would be obliged to strike at the country that has taken such a reckless step. [An] escapade [to supply nuclear weapons] was nipped in the bud.”

Putin mouthpiece and ex-president of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, said of Zelensky: “The stinky dog seriously hopes to hold elections in the dying country, rise from the ashes, and regain his legitimate status.”

This was Zelensky’s “only chance to stay alive”, he claimed. He said “signing a surrender act” should be done by a Ukrainian military figure, not Zelensky.

“Why am I writing about this now? To dispel the illusions of everyone who associates the possibility of conflict resolution with this creature.”