American officials essentially suggested the elimination of Russia’s leadership, the foreign minister has said Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. © EVGENIA NOVOZHENINA / POOL / AFP
Reported comments by US officials about the possibility of a “decapitating strike” against Russia strongly suggest that Washington does not rule out the assassination of President Vladimir Putin, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with TASS news agency published on Tuesday.
The minister noted that some “‘unnamed officials from the Pentagon actually threatened to conduct a ‘decapitating strike’ on the Kremlin…What we are talking about is the threat of the physical elimination of the head of the Russian state,” he said.
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