The Dalai Lama blasted Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “self-centered” autocrat whose invasion of Ukraine shows he wants to “rebuild” the Berlin Wall, a German newspaper reported Sunday.

“His attidude is: ‘I, I, I,’” the Tibetan Buddhist leader told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper.

The Dalai Lama, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011, noted that Putin had previously served as Russia’s president and prime minister before getting elected as president again.

“That’s a bit too much,” he said. “This is very self-centered.”

The Dalai Lama also that “while we had become accustomed (to the fact) that the Berlin Wall has fallen … President Putin seems to want to rebuild it. But he is hurting his own country by doing this. Isolation is suicide.”

The Dalai Lama even favorably contrasted China — whose 1950 invasion of Tibet led to his ongoing exile — to Putin’s Russia.

“China wants to be part of the global political system … I don’t have the impression this accounts for Russia and President Putin, at the moment.”

Meanwhile, deadly combat resumed in eastern Ukraine despite a ceasefire deal struck between government forces and pro-Russian rebels — including shelling inside the main rebel stronghold of Donetsk early Sunday evening.

A witness there said mortar attacks on the city damaged a bridge where rebels had set up a roadblack, Reuters reported.

Earlier, massive explosions rocked the outskirts of Donetsk near the government-controlled airport, with at least two houses set ablaze in the nearby rural village of Spartak.

The blasts reportedly could be heard all the way in downtown Donetsk.

A rebel statement said several insurgent fighters were killed when Ukrainian forces violated the ceasefire by firing on their positions in six locations, including near the airport, starting late Saturday.

A 33-year-old woman was also killed, and at least four people were injured, by artillery fire on the port city of Mariupol, a key location for the export of Ukrainian steel where government forces have set up defensive lines.

Witnesses told the Associated Press that heavy explosions came from the eastern outskirts of Mariupol, where the city council said one serviceman was wounded when a checkpoint was hit.

The volunteer Azov Battalion said on Facebook that its positions were hit by Grad rockets, but did not give details.