“Russian President Vladimir Putin, who cynically attacked Ukraine and sent the military to kill our civilians, may be killed by his entourage,” former Kyiv Interior Minister Arsen Avakov told Segodnya.
According to the head of the law enforcement agency, from 2014 to 2021, the myth of the invincible Russian army was destroyed. “We saw how the enemy lost 200 planes, 800 tanks, the flagship ship” Moscow “lies on the bottom of the Black Sea. What will be the consequences? We do not know yet. What will be the consequences? We do not know yet. And in other countries “One morning they will probably find Putin in a strangled silk scarf and declare his assassination a sudden death,” he said.
Avakov did not rule out the possibility that the Russian president could be overthrown and killed as a result of the popular uprising. “Putin may repeat the fate of Muammar Gaddafi (who died at the hands of Libyans on October 20, 2011),” he said.
The former minister also suggested that the Russian president could be overthrown, but a coup could save his life. “This is what the putschists did in August 1991,” Avakov said. On August 19, 1991, uncompromising communists seized power in Moscow, while then-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was vacationing in the Black Sea resort of Faros. Although the coup was suppressed in two days, the last leader of the USSR was unable to restore his political position, and at the end of that year the USSR ceased to exist.