A former Russian spy who claims she was trained in the same gruelling military programme as Vladimir Putin has shared her chilling thoughts on the war – saying the Russian president will “go till the end”.
Aliia Roza, 37, hit the headlines last year after revealing her past as a hired femme fatale who fell in love with her target and barely escaped with her life.
“I was trained in the same military program as Putin and we learned how to stay calm and cold-blooded in a very stressful situation,” she told Jam Press.
“Mr. Putin always wins; he can’t lose this war and back up, because it will damage his reputation.
“He will go till the end.”
Born in the USSR to a father who was a high-ranking military General, Aliia was expected to follow in his footsteps and join the Russian military.
After an affair with the man she was meant to gather intelligence on, the spy had to leave Moscow fearing for her life and has not been back in over a decade.
Aliia knows first-hand just how dangerous Putin can be, having allegedly been trained by the same people, and has relatives living in both Ukraine and Russia.
She said: “Sometimes when I watch these movies like Red Sparrow I am like ‘oh my god, how do they know all these things?’
“In my educational centre, they would teach us how to seduce men, how to psychologically manipulate them, how to get them to talk so we could hand over information to police.”
Aliia believes the Russian presidents strategy is to “have full control of Ukraine” and position a new leader to replace Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The former spy, who now lives in Los Angeles but also has a base in London, has friends in both Ukraine and Russia, who tell her they are “scared” of the Russian president’s regime.
She said: “Putin’s strategy is obvious – don’t let NATO place any rockets / weapons in Ukraine and he will do everything to achieve his goal.
“But, he believed that it would be easy, as it was when he sent the Russian army to Kazakhstan due to revolution in January 2021.
“He didn’t expect that Ukrainians would fight back and have support from the whole world.
“Personally I feel very sad and devastated that civilians are dying every day.
“My relatives and friends live in Ukraine and in Russia.
“I am really worried about them.
“I speak with them every day and [they tell me] Russians over 45 are following Putin’s regime because they are scared.
“People are tired after Covid, no one wants to have a war.
“Russian soldiers are usually not the ones who can choose to go to the war or not, there is the order – they have to follow it.”
The fashion PR, who brushes shoulders with everyone from Mike Tyson to London Mayor Sadiq Khan and has even met Prince Charles, is currently fundraising to gather donations for Ukrainian children.
She’s also sharing self-defence techniques on social media so that “everyone can fight back”.
Ironically, the man who changed her life was also called Vladimir – the target of Aliia’s first official mission in 2004, when she was just 19 years old.
She previously told Jam Press: “For my first task, I had to pretend I was a prostitute so I could go to a club and seduce the leader of a criminal gang which was supplying drugs into the country.
“It was just crazy, I was hanging out with these baddies who would fight each other and kill each other.
“Vladimir’s gang members found out I was in the military quite soon, they probably tracked me.
“They put me into the car, they dropped me into the forest, it was so dark, and 10 men started beating me.
“Vladimir saved me from being killed.
“Before he died, Vladimir gave me contacts in Moscow of people to contact in case anything happened to him, and told me to speak to no one else.
“Police started to track me and his friends hid me for just under a year.
“When things were calm enough I started to live my life, but I knew I could never go back.”
The former spy soon met and fell in love with a Russian oligarch, who she married in 2006 and soon after fell pregnant with.
But her life took yet another turn when her husband was jailed and later died in prison.
With a newborn son, Platon (now 12), Aliia wanted to make a name for herself in order to show her son that it’s possible to change your life.
She moved to Switzerland and later London, before moving to the US to live among the rich and famous.
