Vladimir Putin’s ‘assassination targets’ are revealed in chilling new documents ‘declassified’ by US intelligence

The identities of Vladimir Putin’s enemies who were designated “assassination targets” have been made public by US intelligence in chilling papers that were declassified.

During Putin’s 25 years in power, a number of prominent Russians have perished under mysterious circumstances after defying, criticizing, or crossing the bitter tyrant.

The strange deaths, which range from plane crashes to poisonings and a slew of unexplained window falls, demonstrate the extensive and brutal reach of his intelligence services.

According to security analysts, Putin ordered these enigmatic assassinations to further his political goals, although many security authorities have so far accused the Kremlin for them.

But for the first time, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence produced a reliable intelligence report that linked several of these targeted executions to the Kremlin.

Putin directly ordered multiple assassinations, according to the highly classified memo that was made public after a Bloomberg journalist requested a Mandatory Declassification Review.

According to the intelligence assessment, Putin most likely permits the killings of prominent foreign figures.

“The Russian government will keep using its intelligence services and other devoted organizations to kill suspected terrorists and foreigners it believes pose a threat to Vladimir Putin’s government.”

“Our confidence level for this judgment is high, based on official Russian statements and the findings of foreign governments incountries where assassinations have taken place.”

According to the article, Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, the former leader of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, was assassinated in Qatar in 2004—the first definite instance of Putin ordering an assassination overseas.

According to Pravada, authorities discovered that Anatoly Belashkov and Vasily Bogachev, two operatives from Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), were responsible for the murder.

They were deported to Russia, where they were supposed to serve out the remainder of their senate, despite being given a life sentence by a Qatari court.

But afterward, Russian jail officials said they never located them.

Alexander Litvinenko, a former FSB officer, was murdered in London in 2006.

Three weeks after radioactive polonium-210 was accidentally added to his tea, the 44-year-old former Russian spy passed away in excruciating pain.

After criticizing President Putin, he went to Britain, and it was later discovered that MI6 had bribed him.

Putin was accused of personally authorizing his assassination, a claim the Kremlin has consistently rejected.

The hit was allegedly carried out by two of his friends, Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitri Kovtun.

The two are wanted in the UK for the murder of Litvinenko and are both subject to US sanctions.

“The official British inquiry into Litvinenko’s murder concluded that Putin ‘probably approved’ it, based upon a review of physical evidence and decisionmaking on matters related to the security services,” the US intelligence report stated of the assassination.

Alexander Perepelichny, a 44-year-old Russian businessman, passed out in Weybridge, Surrey, in 2012 after spending the night in Paris with his mistress.

As stated in the US intelligence paper, “[Perepilichnyy] was reportedly assassinated with a biological toxin in the UK in 2012 shortly before he was scheduled to testify about a Kremlin tax fraud network.” This indicates that he was poisoned.

The intelligence also notes that in 2015, Vladimir Putin ordered the assassination of Alexander Bednov, a separatist leader and outspoken opponent of the Kremlin.

It stated: “At least some key separatist figures in Ukraine’s Donbas Region who resisted Kremlin orders, such as Oleksandr Bednov, have probably been killed at Moscow’s behest, reflecting Russia’s priority on maintaining control over the region.”

Numerous additional Russia critics have perished inexplicably, despite the document exposing a few high-profile assassination instances thought to have connections to Moscow.

Alexei Navalny, 47, Putin’s most powerful opponent, passed away in February while serving a 19-year sentence on false “extremism” charges in the Russian Arctic’s strict-regime Polar Wolf jail.

After being compelled to endure hours of cold temperatures, Navalny was thought to have been killed by a single blow to the heart.

The harsh approach was previously a “hallmark of the KGB,” according to experts.

According to Russia’s investigating committee, Yevgeny Prigozhin, 62, the leader of the Wagner mercenary group and an outspoken opponent of Putin, perished in a fiery private plane crash in August of last year.

Before launching an uprising in June of last year, promising to “punish” Russia for a deadly missile attack on one of his training camps in eastern Ukraine, he was a close friend of Putin.

Putin denounced the rebellion as “a knife in the back of our people” and a “mortal blow” to Russia.

Meanwhile, a Russian TV chef was discovered dead at a hotel in Belgrade after escaping to London due to his opposition to Vladimir Putin’s conflict in Ukraine.

The reason of death for 52-year-old Alexei Zimin, who passed away unexpectedly while on a promotional tour in the Serbian capital, is yet unknown, according to authorities.

Zimin, Russia’s equivalent of Jamie Oliver, was friends with Jude Law, a Hollywood star, and met the British celebrity chef.

He is the most recent in a long line of Putin’s adversaries to pass away unexpectedly since the brutal struggle began in February 2022.

An ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Vladimir Egorov, died in December 2023 after falling from a Moscow third-story window.

Egorov, 46, was a well-known and affluent politician in western Siberia’s oil-rich city of Tobolsk.

Only a few weeks before, the 35-year-old deputy editor of Putin’s preferred propaganda publication was discovered dead.

Nearly a year after her boss Vladimir Sungorkin, 68, passed away, Anna Tsareva, 35, was found dead at her residence on Bolshoy Tishinsky Lane in the city.

In February of the same year, Marina Yankina, 58, a senior Russian defense official and a major contributor to the financing of Putin’s unlawful war in Ukraine, also plunged 160 feet to her death in St. Petersburg.

She oversaw the Ministry of Defense’s Western Military District finance assistance division, which is directly related to the dictator’s invasion.

A suspected poisoning also led to the discovery of the warmonger’s state-run TV empire’s chief editor dead earlier this year.

The 48-year-old Zoya Konovalova, who operated a channel close to Mad Vlad’s illegal battle frontlines, was discovered with her ex-husband.

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