Hitler committed suicide in an underground bunker in Berlin, leaving his generals to face the Nuremberg Trials, where they were sentenced to death.

Osama bin Laden, killed by U.S. military forces.

Saddam Hussein, executed by hanging in 2006.

Muammar Gaddafi, killed by gunfire in two stages.

Nicolae Ceaușescu, executed by firing squad with his wife at a military base.

Slobodan Milošević, charged by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague with war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. He died of a heart attack in the fifth year of his trial, before a verdict, halting the proceedings.

Pol Pot, overthrown and arrested by his own movement in 1997 after a tragic toll of 1.7 million deaths.

Augusto Pinochet, arrested in London following an international complaint filed in Spain for “genocide, terrorism, and torture.”

Vladimir Putin can still avoid such a tragic end by immediately stopping the war and withdrawing his troops from Ukraine’s internationally recognized borders, as acknowledged by the UN. In a few days, if new aggression occurs in eastern Ukraine, it will be too late for him.