Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday warned the United States against ordering a “beheading attack” on President Vladimir Putin.
Lavrov’s comments refer to an anonymous US military official who told Newsweek in September that a special operation “to kill Putin in the heart of the Kremlin” was one of the options the US was considering in response to Putin’s escalating nuclear attack. rhetoric.
“Some ‘unnamed officials’ of the Pentagon even threatened a ‘beheading attack’ against the Kremlin,” Lavrov told Russia’s TASS news agency in an interview.
Lavrov described the plans as “essentially a threat to physically remove the Russian head of state” and warned of “consequences” if such an attack were ever carried out.
The Russian embassy in Washington condemned the so-called decapitation option as “reckless” and “delusional” at the time.
Lavrov on Tuesday also accused the United States and its NATO allies of trying to beat Russia on the battlefield in order to weaken or destroy the country. He also blamed the Biden administration for preventing the normalization of US-Russia relations.
