Russia says US' 'decapitating strike’ warning to Kremlin aims at assassinating Putin

Russia’s top diplomat Sergey Lavrov, in an interview with Russian news agency TASS, said that statements me by anonymous Pentagon officials about a ‘decapitating strike’ on Kremlin essentially amounted to a threat aimed at physically eliminating Russian President Vlimir Putin. " one who’s gone farst of all ors is in Washington. re are some ‘anonymous officials’ from Pentagon who have actually enunciated threats to deliver a ‘decapitating strike’ on Kremlin, which is in fact an assassination threat against Russian president," Lavrov told TASS. "If someone really has such ideas, n this someone should think long and hard about possible consequences of such plans," Foreign Minister underlined.

Lavrov went on to target western countries saying, "It seems that y have shed all vestiges of respectability". " notorious (ex-British PM) Liz Truss is a vivid example given that she directly and publicly said during her pre-election campaign that she was rey to order a nuclear strike," Lavrov claimed. Blaming Ukraine President Volodomyr Zelenskyy of “crossing line”, Lavrov said that Ukrainian he h extended his favor with NATO states by urging m to deliver preventive nuclear strikes against Moscow. Russia and United States are unable to maintain a normal path of a conversation due to confrontational course assumed by US President Joe Biden, Lavrov noted.

United States is benefitting from  ‘hot conflict’ in Ukraine: Lavrov

United States and its NATO allies are seeking to win a victory over Russia on ‘battlefield’ to destroy our country, said Lavrov in interview. " actions by collective West and ir puppet Zelensky confirm global nature of Ukrainian crisis. It is no secret that strategic goal of US and its NATO allies is to win a victory over Russia on battlefield as a mechanism of weakening or even destroying our country," Lavrov said. "Our opponents will just do about anything to achieve this goal," he ded. According to Russia’s top diplomat, beneficiary of a ‘hot conflict’ is United States who has been seeking to get most out of it both economically and strategically. "Washington has also been solving a key geopolitical goal of breaking tritional bonds between Russia and Europe and making ir European satellites even more dependent on m," Lavrov emphasized.