VITALI Klitschko has issued a stark warning... if his country Ukraine is defeated by Russia, Vladimir Putin will go on an even wider rampage.
Klitschko, who is the mayor of Kyiv and a former world heavyweight boxing champion, said victory for Putin would result in the Russian president ordering invasions of several Nato countries.
Ahead of the second anniversary of Russia's fullscale invasion of Ukraine, he has made an impassioned appeal for more help from the West to prevent his nation being conquered.
In a powerful interview, he said: "We do not defend just our country but every one of you in Europe and everyone in the world.
"Now is the time to help us defend our country and you.
"We urgently need much stronger weaponry to turn the tables on the Russians. We can do it... together." He added: "Everyone in the West has to understand we in Ukraine defend not just our home and our families.
"If Russia can smash the biggest country in Eastern Europe into submission, they will be after the rest of you very soon.
"That includes the part of Germany where Putin used to do his KGB spying and help repress millions of Europeans under the old Communist regime." An invasion of a Nato country could spark a world war.
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