And please explain how Putin DOESN'T fit the category.
I would also accept malignant narcissist. They're essentially the same thing.
Why on earth would you defend his actions?
An opinion from a psychiatrist.
"Russian President Vladimir Putin exhibits characteristics of a psychopath who can only be deterred by a "credible threat of force," a Cornell University forensic psychiatrist told Fox News Digital.
Dr. Ziv Cohen said it would be a violation of his profession's ethical rules to diagnose a public figure who he has not personally examined, but he can assess Putin’s actions in the framework of a personality type.
He said Putin scores high in the three categories associated with the mental disorder of psychopathy: aggression, narcissism and lack of empathy, which have been on full display in autocratic leader's invasion of Ukraine.
With psychopaths, you cannot develop a common understanding. You cannot have agreements with them. They really only respond to superior power, to a credible threat of force."
https://www.foxnews.com/us/russian-president-vladimir-putin-features-psychopath-expert-says