Chances of Vladimir Putin assassination 'wishful thinking' says UK defence chief
Channel: News 360 Tv
Date: 2022-07-17

The UK Chief of the Defence Staff Admiral Sir Tony Radakin has said speculation that Vladimir Putin is not well or could be assassinated is just “wishful thinking”.

He added that military officials see a "relatively stable regime" in Russia and that the president has been able to "quash" any opposition. 

"I think some of these comments that he's not well, or that actually, surely somebody is going to assassinate him or take him out, I think they're wishful thinking," Mr Radakin said

Britain’s armed forces chief has dismissed rumours that Vladimir Putin is seriously ill and called speculation he could be assassinated ‘wishful thinking’.

The UK Chief of the Defence Staff Admiral Sir Tony Radakin was asked if the Russian president, who launched a bloody invasion of Ukraine in February, could be ‘toppled’ in a ‘regime change’.

But he told Sophie Raworth on BBC One’s Sunday Morning show: ‘I think some of the comments that he’s not well or that actually surely somebody’s going to assassinate him or take him out, I think they’re wishful thinking.

‘As military professionals we see a relatively stable regime in Russia, President Putin has been able to quash any opposition, we see a hierarchy that is invested in President Putin and so nobody at the top has got the motivation to challenge President Putin, and that is bleak.’

He said the ‘challenge of Russia is going to endure’ potentially for ‘decades in terms of Russia as a threat’, and the next prime minister should know that Russia is ‘the biggest threat’ to the UK.

Sir Tony added: ‘So the biggest threat is Russia, and that’s Russia in all its guises when you look at it militarily.

‘Its land forces are probably less of a threat in the short term because of that degradation, that depletion that we’re seeing with their struggle in Ukraine.

‘But Russia continues to be a nuclear power, it’s got cyber capabilities, it’s got space capabilities, and it’s got particular programmes under water so it can threaten the underwater cables that allow the world’s information to transit around the whole globe.’


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