The mysterious 'source' of explosive and unsubstantiated allegations that Donald Trump cavorted with Russian prostitutes asked for 'protection' from the US government, but was turned down, his father has disclosed.

Soviet-born businessman Sergei Millian, 38, who Dailymail.com can reveal was trained as a military interpreter before moving to the U.S., allegedly boasted to third parties that Moscow had compromising video of the US president engaging in lewd sexual acts that could be used to blackmail him.

These dynamite assertions were then - it has been claimed - passed without his knowledge by at least one intermediary to British ex-MI6 agent Christoper Steele.

Those allegations formed the purported basis of the former spy's 'dirty dossier' which rocked Washington when its contents became public.

Now it can be disclosed that Millian has voiced fears for his own safety, at the same time as denying that he was in any way the source for the dossier.

Protection: Sergei Millian asked for the U.S. government to protect him after he was named as the source of the most salacious claims in the dirty dossier. He denies having information on Trump, whom he is now thought to have first met in 2007

Defiant: The 38-year-old Soviet-born businessman now lives in the United States. He trained as a military interpreter at university and changed his name when he entered the U.S., his father ssid

Back home: Sergei Millian (right) remains a frequent visitor to his family in a dilapidated village in the former Soviet republic of Belarus, his father Milediy Kukut (left) told DailyMail.com

Impoverished: One-party state Belarus is impoverished and Sharkaŭshchyna, a town 125 miles from the capital of Minsk, is among its most economically troubled areas

Upbringing: Millian's parents still live at the second-floor, Soviet-era apartment where he was brought up. His father drives the red Lada car (left), another Soviet-era holdover

Location: Belarus is a key ally of Vladimir Putin's Russia and Millian's native town of Sharkaŭshchyna is 125 miles from its capital, Minsk

His father told DailyMail.com that the businessman had requested protection in the U.S., where he has lived since 2001.

And Millian - real name Sergei Kukut or, in Belarussian, Siarhei Kukuts - has hinted that he could be in danger, blaming shadowy forces in London.

He said that thanked God he was 'alive and healthy' and is able to 'tell the truth' that he had no involvement in the allegations against Trump, with whom he has claimed to have a business relationship.

Trump has angrily denied any sexual impropriety in Moscow, and also dismissed claims from Millian that the pair had a business link, while Putin has denied holding 'kompromat' on the new U.S. president.

With Steele in hiding, and Millian last seen in Atlanta, DailyMail.com went to his native Belarus, an economic basket case labeled the last dictatorship in Europe under strongman Alexander Lukashenko, a longstanding Putin ally.

At the dilapidated town where Milliam was brought up, his father Milediy Kukut revealed: 'He has asked the US government for protection - but was told he had to sort it all himself.'

Kukut, 63, said he did not know if his son had approached the FBI or another US law enforcement agency after he was 'besieged' in the wake of The Wall Street Journal linking him to the dossier.

Millian hails from the small snow-clad village of Sharkaŭshchyna, some 125 miles north of capital Minsk, a rundown and impoverished backwater where locals say life is worse than in Soviet times.

When he moved to the U.S. he changed his name from Sergei Kukut or, in Belarussian, Siarhei Kukuts, to use one of his grandmother's surnames because it was easier to pronounce, his father said.

'I didn't read The Wall Street Journal, but anyway the only person I trust is my son,' he said.

Kukut denied that Millian had met Trump at the now-notorious Miss Universe contest in Moscow in 2013 when the president was accused of watching a 'golden shower' involving Russian prostitutes soiling a bed at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel where President Obama and his wife had once slept.

It is believed that Millian originally met the now president during an earlier visit Trump made to Moscow in 2007.

Confirming his son knew the American leader, he said: 'I think they got to know each other through Sergei's legal connections.

'I don't think Trump could fall as low as ordering prostitutes.

'Trump is scared of bacteria and rarely extends his hand for a handshake - but he does so with Sergei. I am actually nervous that I'll harm Sergei even by saying this.

Boasted of connection: Millian has made little secret of his link to Donald Trump and even posted pictures suggesting he was in Washington D.C. for the president's inauguration

Not the source: Millian has said he did not have compromising material on the president - but he also said: 'All that was presented was some doubtful statements of third parties.'

'I wonder if it was Trump's rivals from the Democratic Party who got Sergei involved in this scandal, thinking that he was a weak point.'

He dismissed the gossip his son allegedly peddled and which was heard by ex-MI6 man Steele as 'fairytales'.

'We as a family, we believe no-one but our son,' he said.

'My personal attitude to Trump is that we want to see what he does during the first 100 days.'

Kukut is the former head of a local Soviet-style collective farm, who is now an inspector for labour protection and safety in the district executive committee, as well as a published writer of Belarussian prose and poetry.

He is a keen hunter and angler who drives a red Lada, the mass-manufactured Soviet era cars still widely driven in the former Soviet republic.

In an interview with Russian TV not previously reported in the West, Millian said that 'neither Russia nor I have any compromising materials on Trump, and we cannot have'.

He said: 'Such stuff was not revealed. All that was presented was some doubtful statements of third parties.

'This is all a brazen lies and the attempt of some group of persons - and no doubt it is a group - to compromise our president, using my name.'

Dossier author: Ex-British spy Christopher Steele is in hiding

He went on: 'For more than 10 years I have headed the chamber of commerce [Russian-American Business Group] and there was always only positive information about me.

'And only last eight months since I claimed that I personally supported Mr Trump in his desire to be the president, negative information began to appear about me.

'The last attacks were from London. Probably it is people there from whom everything comes.'

Millian said he feared 'the lie can win', evidently hinting he feared for his safety.

'Thank God we all are alive and healthy - and we can tell the truth,' he said.

'And the truth is that sadly there is some group of persons who are interested in the impeachment of our president, for whom millions voted.

'A group of persons, not very big actually, is working to discredit our president and me.'

He added: 'They try to compromise not only me, but also the organisation which is connected with me.'

Millian has denied he or his organization are connected to Russian intelligence - 'I'm not involved' - while also admitting in US interviews that 'when I meet top people in the Russian government, they invite me, let's say to the Kremlin, to the reception, so of course I have the chance to talk to some presidential advisers, some top people.

'I'm one of those very few people who have insider knowledge of Kremlin politics who has the ability to understand the Russian mentality and who has been able to successfully integrate in American society.'

In dilapidated Sharkaŭshchyna his father insisted Millian was a 'just a village boy' who was a hard-working and talented student who got a break that took him to America where he has lived for 15 years.

He had progressed from the local school to Minsk State Linguistic University where he specialized as a 'military interpreter' and in 'philology', his father revealed.

With a population of 6,300, his native town has some of the lowest wages in Belarus, with a local dairy plant, and a brick works, both closing in recent years.

Strongman ally: Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus, is close to Vladimir Putin and is at the head of what has been called Europe's last dictatorship

He was there: The dirty dossier claimed that Trump had ordered prostitutes to perform 'golden showers' when he was in Moscow for Miss Universe. The dossier's extraordinary claims have been widely discredited

After university Millian enrolled at the Presidential Academy of Management, majoring in law, and won a grant to go to the US, participating in an international education programs sponsored by Marriott International Inc.

On Monday this week, bear-like Kukut senior went as a guest of honor to the local school where his son had studied to teach a class to students on the importance of higher education.

Millian's portrait is on the wall at School Number One alongside other notable ex-students, and the proud father told the teenage group: 'If you study well, you will be like my son....'

He then read his own poem about his son but couldn't finish it, suddenly becoming tearful, possibly feeling the strain of the accusations against his son over the Trump dossier.

One verse in the 2008 poem reads: 'Pay mercy Dear God, And give him strength, And don't be scared Son, For I am here with you, here, feel my hands.'

Millian's mother Zoya made clear she was against him talking to the DailyMail.com reporter, but he did so, although at one point said: 'We'll chat, but I'll stop talking once and for all if you say a word about either Trump or politics.'

Pacing down the street, he insisted on walking a few steps ahead of the female reporter, not to appear to be together.

His son had told him that 'all journalists are jackals', he said. He took a picture of the reporter and recorded their conversation.

Kukut however speaks with glowing pride about his son and his achievement of going to the U.S. and starting a business which - he said - has links to both Russia and China.

We always visit Minsk Central Library when Sergei is in Belarus. There he checks out books on politics and economics. One of his reading orders was Karl Marx. He also took Das Kapital to the US. Sergei Millan's father

Growing up, Millian had learned all about farming in this remote rustic location.

'By the time Sergei went to the university I was the chairman of the kolkhoz [collective farm].

'We had a big plot of land, cows and pigs. Sergei learnt how to drive a tractor when he was at school, and he was always around helping with plowing, planting, digging potatoes and preparing hay for winter.

'We never had to ask, let alone push him to help.'

Millian is their second child, his sister Oksana - who works in the local tax police - is two years older.

Unlike their son, she has given him a grandchild, Maria, five.

'Oksana always studied well, just like Sergei. Our children have always been our pride. Sergei studied at School Number One,' he said.

'He was always good about school - while he has never been at the top of the class, he liked studies. He was very much into sports, too.

'He loved football. He played for the district football team and loved athletics. He's always been a leader, people liked following him.

'My interest to literature mirrored on him as he still pays great attention to my new works. The first place he goes to once he is back in Minsk is a book shop.

'We always visit Minsk Central Library when Sergei is in Belarus. There he checks out books on politics and economics.'

He said proudly: 'One of his reading orders was Karl Marx. He also took Das Kapital to the US.

Bleak: This is the village which Millian left behind for a new life in the United States, taking a copy of Das Kapital with him

Back home: Sergei Millian (left) and his father Milediy Kukut (right) go riding on a return trip to Belarus for the American-based businessman

Pride: Sergei Millian's picture is on the wall of School Number One in his home town, where his father spoke to senior students

Close to tears: Milediy Kukut was emotional as he told students at his son's old school about his career and read a poem he had written

'Sergei tried writing poems, too.

'When he was in Year 9, he took great interest in studying English and paid so much effort to it that in just 12 months he could act as an interpreter for a delegation from the US that visited Sharkaŭshchyna as part of an exchange program.'

This was the first time he came across Americans, and seems to have planted an interest in the US that would shape his life.

'Two of the students from the group spent a night at our place,' said his father.

'I admired Sergei for being so diligent and speaking so effortlessly with the guys from America.

'By the end of the school he won several Olympiads, including a regional one, so two local universities offered him placements.

'In 1996 he entered Minsk State University of Linguistics to study foreign languages.

'He was just a village boy, yet he passed all exams with 19.5 points when the pass mark was 16.5 points.

'Despite us always earning well, we couldn't afford paying for extra tuition.

'In fact even if we could have afforded it, there was no tutors in Sharkaŭshchyna.'

Kukut recalled: 'He studied so passionately that I tried to cut his time with books, and even argued over the sheer intensity of his studies.

'I would often see light in the middle of the night in his room and wake up to switch it off, thinking that he must have fallen asleep - but each time my son would be there with his headphones, listening to an American radio station and practicing synchronized translation into Belorussian.

'Later at the institute he studied Italian and Spanish; he went to Italy to practice the language.'

His father explained: 'He loved historic literature and once at the university spent a lot of time reading on how to develop a business.

Family: Sergei Millian with his mother Zoya (left) his sister Oksana (right) - who works in the local tax police - and her daughter Maria, who is now five

Returning home: Sergey Millian in Belarus, a world away from his life which has seen him meet Trump and sell real estate from offices in Atlanta as well as now try to do business in China

Different life: Miledir Kukt, who was a collective farm boss, enjoys hunting around the Belarus home where he and his wife Zoya brought up Sergei

'He took like a shelf of business of economics, business development and management with him.

'Just as with the rest of what he was doing, I never pushed him with reading.

'He was spending all spare time either studying, or playing sport. He wasn't out and about with friends at parties and discos.

'He had lots of friends at school and was a head student in his university group.

'People liked him and whenever there were friends coming to our house, they had to learn something new, or discuss a book they had read, not to drink beer.

'He spent a lot of his university time working as a volunteer for projects around the country and abroad, travelling twice to the US, and once each to Italy and Czech Republic.

'Around the year 2001 while studying at the President's Academy, he went for an internship in the US.'

On his personal life, his father said: 'I don't think he even had time for a first love. He was too busy for it, and didn't bring anyone home.

'He was too obsessed with studies and forever too short of time.'

He visited his son in the US, and was sad when he sold his house in Atlanta, Georgia, to buy a flat in New York.

'About 60 per cent of people in Atlanta are Spanish-speakers; when Sergei worked for a legal firm in the city, he earned trust from the [Russian] diaspora,' he said.

'When I visited him, people in the diaspora shops refused to accept money - saying this is their sign of respect to Sergei's family.'

Now his son 'is concentrating on developing business with China. When he flies there, he always try to built a route so that he comes back home for at least a couple of days.

'I heard him speaking Chinese on Skype and it sounded so impressive.

'As well as making speeches at Harvard, he read lectures at Chinese universities.

'He had a house in Atlanta, then sold it and bought a flat in New York.

'I wasn't sure of that step as his business was going really well in Atlanta, both in the legal company and his translation bureau.

His mother Zoya graduated from Minsk State University for Economics, and is now retired. She worked as chief economist at the local road building enterprise, where she had the reputation as a 'strict boss' .

Kukut said his son 'changed his family name at the point of getting residency in the US'.

He said the family surname was not 'easy on the tongue' and he had chosen the name of a grandmother.

'I wasn't against it. I lived with this family name all my life and I've got nothing to be ashamed of - but if you want to choose another surname, it's your right, go ahead.'

With his US earnings, he has allowed his parents to travel from their bleak village in Vitebsk region to see the world.

'He is an incredibly caring son. He took us to places all around Europe and Africa,' he said.

'He would usually give us a call and say - ok I bought you two a trip to this or that place.

'He loves Belarussian cuisine, local specialties like draniki (potato pancakes) and meat gnocchi.'