Kremlin Responds to Hohol Claim They’re Going to Assassinate Putin

Putin apparently promised the Israelis he wouldn’t kill Zelensky.

The former Israeli PM, Naftali Bennet, said this in an interview back in February of this year.

It makes sense that Putin would make this kind of deal with the Israelis, since he is forced to cooperate with them in the Middle East, preventing a war between Russia and Israel inside of Syria.

However, when the Ukrainians are openly saying they’re trying to assassinate Putin, it seems to me this should invalidate whatever specific but informal promises were made to the Israelis.

RT:

Ukraine’s leadership has again demonstrated its “terrorist” nature by threatening to assassinate President Vladimir Putin, Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov has said, while giving assurances that the Russian leader is well protected.

“A terrorist regime talks about its terrorist aspirations,” Peskov told the Rossiya 24 broadcaster on Thursday.

The spokesman was commenting on an acknowledgement by Vadim Skibitsky, deputy head of Ukraine’s Main Directorate of Intelligence (GUR), who told the German outlet Die Welt on Wednesday that Putin was on his agency’s kill list.

Peskov said such statements show that the military operation, launched by Russia in Ukraine in February 2022, was “more than justified, more than necessary and that it must be completed.”

When asked if the Russian president’s security detail had been boosted after the threat from Kiev, Peskov replied: “Trust me, our security services know their job and know what they’re doing.”

In his interview, Skibitsky claimed that Putin “notices that we’re getting ever closer to him,” suggesting that Ukrainian operatives have so far been unable to get to him because the Russian leader “stays holed up.” The intelligence official also said the GUR was “trying to kill” the head of the Wagner private military company, Evgeny Prighozhin, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu, and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov.

They’re just trying to kill everyone, I guess.

Assassinations are typically going to be a lot easier than winning a war, all things being equal. If you have a team of psychos, it’s very difficult for a public figure to be constantly protected.

Of course, when you get to the level of Putin, it’s not that hard to be constantly protected, so I don’t think he’s at any risk. I assume the hohols will continue to knock off bloggers and other low-level targets, as well as continue various dronings and bombings inside of Russia proper. There’s nothing else they can do. They’ve lost abysmally on the battlefield.