UK Government Signals Mercenary Group Is On A Mission To Kill Ukrainian Leader Zelenskyy

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UK Government Signals Mercenary Group Is On A Mission To Kill Ukrainian Leader Zelenskyy
The British government announced new sanctions on the Wagner Group, believed to be led by a neo-Nazi.
By Sara Boboltz
Mar. 24, 2022, 05:58 PM EDT


The United Kingdom’s Foreign Office signaled Thursday that it believes Russia is using the Wagner Group, a shadowy Kremlin-linked mercenary organization, to hunt down and kill Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Since the start of the war, Zelenskyy has said he is Russia’s “No. 1 target,” and U.S. officials have voiced repeated concerns about his safety. But the Ukrainian leader has refused to flee his country, choosing instead to stay in Kyiv, the capital, as it continues to ward off a Russian takeover.

The alleged founder and leader of the Wagner Group, Dmitry Utkin, is believed to have Nazi sympathies ― an irony if true considering how Russian President Vladimir Putin has justified his aggression in Ukraine by claiming it needs to be “de-Nazified.”

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss announced that the Wagner Group numbered among dozens of individuals and businesses to be newly sanctioned, describing it as “the organisation of Russian mercenaries reportedly tasked with assassinating President Zelenskyy.”

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Russia says it does not use the mercenary group, which it refers to simply as a private company. According to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based think tank, that plausible deniability comes in handy: “The Russian government has found Wagner and other private military companies to be useful as a way to extend its influence overseas without the visibility and intrusiveness of state military forces.”

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1. Does Putin Really Want Zelenskyy Dead?.....

He really should think this out. A dead Zelenskyy would become a martyr to the Ukrainian People. That would incite them and inspire them even more to beat Putin and Russia.

Anyone else have thoughts on this?