by Chris Black
According to former Israeli PM, Naftali Bennet in an interview back in February of this year, Putin promised the Israelis he wouldn’t kill Zelensky
However, when the Ukrainians are openly saying they’re trying to assassinate Putin, it seems this should invalidate whatever specific but informal promises were made.
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.
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.
There’s nothing else they can do.
They’ve lost abysmally on the battlefield.
Assassinations are a lot easier than winning a war, all things being equal.