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 ofon 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.
‘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. He added: ‘They plan to restore the whole of their territory in terms of Ukraine, and they see a Russia that is struggling, a Russia that we assess has lost more than 30% of its land combat effectiveness.
‘And then we have to remind the Prime Minister of the extraordinary responsibility they have with the UK as a nuclear power, and that is part of the initiation for a new British Prime Minister.’ Dozens attended the funeral of four-year-old Liza Dmytrieva in the central Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia on Sunday.
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