Ukraine admits it is looking to KILL Putin and other senior Russian figures

Ukraine has admitted that its special forces are trying to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin as a top priority.

Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin is also on the kill list alongside senior Russian military commanders, including General Sergei “Armageddon” Surovikin, Ukraine’s second most powerful military intelligence commander Vadym Skibitsky.

But Skibitsky told Die Welt that it is difficult to assassinate Putin because the Russian despot is “entrenched” – although he is “starting to stick his head out now.”

But when he appears in public, Ukraine’s spy agency is “not sure it’s really him,” Skibitsky said in reference to Putin’s alleged use of body doubles, even at high-profile events.

Skibitsky said Putin “sees us getting closer and closer” — a claim supported by a reported new US intelligence analysis that Ukraine was likely behind a daring drone attack on the Kremlin earlier this month.

Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin (left) is also on Kiev’s hit list alongside senior Russian military commanders, including Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu (right)

The Ukrainian commander said Putin was also “afraid of being killed by his own people.”

Skibitsky said Putin tops the list for assassination targets “because he coordinates and decides what happens.”

But he said there is a long list of assassination targets, including Shougi, as “everyone will have to answer for their actions” in the war in Ukraine.

“Chief of Staff Valery Gerasimov and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu planned the attack and now they can’t go back,” Skibitsky said.

Unit commanders who give orders for bloodshed in Ukraine were also on this list.

Skibitsky said: “Many people in Russia still support this ‘special operation’ [war against Ukraine]but thanks to social media and telephone checks, we know that so many Russians have now died that people are afraid of it.’

The “business elite” also posed a threat to Putin because “they are losing billions of dollars,” Skibitsky added.

Prigozhin today was optimistic about the threat of killing him.

“I always say that the enemy should be treated with respect,” said Prigozhin. Of course I respect their decision.

“Of course Prigozhin, as one of the important actors in this war, must be eliminated.

“This is 100 percent true, so they’re definitely taking the right steps.”

Skibitsky claimed that Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov was also on the wanted list, even though he was “realized that the Putin regime has already lost strategically.”

General Sergei ‘Armageddon’ Surovikin was also named as being on the kill list.

Skibitsky claimed that Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov (pictured) was also on the wanted list, even though he was “realized that the Putin regime has already lost strategically”

General Valery Gerasimov and General Sergei Surovikin, commander of the Russian forces in Ukraine, are on the death list

“We are at war and these are our enemies,” Skibitsky said. “If an important figure produces and finances weapons for them, its elimination would save the lives of many civilians.

And then he’s wiped out. According to international treaties it is then a legitimate target.’

Russia has already accused Ukraine of trying to assassinate Putin with an attack on the Kremlin on May 3.

Moscow claimed two Ukrainian kamikaze drones exploded over Putin’s Kremlin residence in the early hours in “a planned act of terrorism and assassination” – even though the Russian despot was not present at the time of the attack.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky denied Russia’s claims that Ukraine was behind the drone attack on the Kremlin and British security officials believe the attack was a “false flag” operation by Russia to distract Kiev from its anticipated counter-offensive and gain support collect in the home country.

Pictured: A fireball rises over the Kremlin after an alleged drone strike by Ukraine on May 3

And a month earlier, in late April, Germany’s Bild newspaper alleged that Ukrainian secret service agents tried to assassinate Putin with a kamikaze drone loaded with explosives, but failed after it crashed a few miles short of their target.

The Ukrainian armed forces reportedly launched the UJ-22 drone, loaded with 17 kilograms of C4 plastic explosives, from Ukraine with the aim of reaching a newly built industrial site near Moscow that Putin was supposed to visit, German newspaper Image claims.

But before the deadly drone reached the Rudnevo industrial estate on its supposed mission to take out the Russian despot, it crashed just a few miles away from the site.

Meanwhile, Skibitsky said sanctions hurt the accuracy of the Russian missiles.

He explained: “Due to the sanctions, many missile parts are missing, for example for the X-101, and that detracts from their accuracy.

“They say they have the most powerful and technologically advanced weapons, but that’s just a fairy tale.

“Just look at their fleet in the Black Sea: it’s just in the harbor and that’s where their submarines are hidden.”

He denied that he wanted to detonate the Crimean bridge with new long-range missiles supplied by the British.

He told Die Welt: ‘We leave that to them as an escape route [from annexed Crimea].

“Every time there is an explosion in Crimea, it is completely full.”