Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warns the United States against carrying out a “beheading coup” against President Vladimir Putin, calling it a “threat to physically remove the Russian head of state.”
Lavrov made the comments Tuesday in an interview with Russia’s state news agency TASS, reportedly referring to an unverified report from September quoting an unnamed Pentagon official as saying the United States was considering such action if Russia ever launched. a nuclear attack.
“Washington went further… Some ‘unidentified officials’ from the Pentagon actually threatened to inflict a ‘beheading blow’ on the Kremlin, but in fact, it is a threat to physically remove the Russian head of state,” Lavrov said. . .
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“If those ideas are actually hatched by someone, that someone should think very carefully about the possible consequences of such plans,” he added.
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Lavrov, speaking about the war in Ukraine, also told TASS: “It is no longer a secret to anyone that the strategic goal of the United States and its NATO allies is ‘victory over Russia on the battlefield’ as a mechanism to significantly weaken or even destroy our country.”
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“For the sake of achieving this goal, our opponents are ready for a lot. The main beneficiary of the ‘hot conflict’ is the United States, which seeks to get the most out of it, both in economic and strategic-military terms,” he added.
“At the same time, Washington is also solving an important geopolitical task: breaking the traditional ties between Russia and Europe and further subjugating European satellites.”
