Pro-Western campaign calls for NATO assassinations in Russia

A former Russian State Duma MP has claimed that he will pressure NATO leaders to assassinate members of President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle and overthrow the Russian government.

The British newspaper The Times spoke to Ilya Ponomarev, a self-styled representative of the Russian resistance. He outlined his plan to submit a document during the 75th NATO summit in Washington next month that justifies the use of force against those close to Putin.

Ponomarev, who lives in exile and claims that some serving Russian MP’s are part of his movement, told The Times that the term ‘combatant’ should cover government officials who organize or finance the war [with Ukraine].

But also businessmen who produce arms, propaganda warmongers. The targeted assassination of such people on Russian soil would then be legal.

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The former politician claims to speak on behalf of Kiev-backed militant forces that staged a coupe in 2014 and later incursions into Russian regions bordering Ukraine before the Russian presidential election in March 2024.

The groups also claimed credit for the murders of military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky and journalist Darya Dugina. Moscow has described the cross-border raids as terrorist attacks conducted on Kiev’s orders.

Russian investigators have also accused Ukrainian special services of masterminding the killings of Tatarsky and Dugina. Earlier this month, Ponomarev described his supposed activities inside Russia to journalist Michael Moynihan of the Free Press.

He claimed to have 10,000 sympathizers in the country, who allegedly do more than just posting anti-government messages on social media – a job that he dismissed as befitting the people of late opposition figure Alexey Navalny.

We’re doing something different. We’re involved in derailing the trains, in attacking refineries. There was the attack on the Kremlin dome.

If you have 5,000 armed and trained mercenaries, you can actually go and capture Moscow, while lamenting that Western officials are reluctant to show public support for his cause.

Asked whether he was planning an assassination attempt against Putin, as implied by the title of his book – ‘Does Putin have to die?’

Ponomarev declined to give a straight answer. Instead, he claimed that people close to Putin would not allow the Russian president to survive to a fair trial.

RT. com / ABC Flash Point News 2024.