Vladimir Putin is the current president of Russia, he officially became president in 2012 and since then is in the office and reigns over Russia. His rule has been seen as dictatorship, autocracy, tyranny and authoritarianism by the Western world, he served as a former KGB agent and was the prime minister of Russia in 1999, in February 2022 he declared war on Ukraine, despite the sanctions and warnings he gets from the West, Putin has never provided an actual reason on why he invaded Ukraine.