Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said “anonymous officials” from the Pentagon threatened to assassinate Putin. “If someone really has such ideas, then this someone should think long and hard about the possible consequences of such plans,” Lavrov cautioned.
From Zero Hedge:
But it appears Lavrov specifically had in mind a September report published in Newsweek which relied on anonymous US defense officials describing that the Biden administration was mulling plans for a "decapitation strike to kill Putin in the heart of the Kremlin." Below is the relevant section from that September 29 Newsweek article: Details about what "decisively" means have not been publicly revealed. The military sources tell Newsweek that there are subtle moves being made with regard to nuclear threats, including moving submarines and aircraft and drilling B-52 bombers. But they stress that non-nuclear military options—the use of conventional weapons and special operations, as well as cyber and space attack—are front and center, to include a decapitation strike to kill Putin in the heart of the Kremlin.
