British Army Chief of Staff Admiral Tony Radakin on Sunday denied rumors about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s health or the possibility of him being assassinated.
“I think some of the comments about him (Putin) not being healthy or he ends up getting killed, I think that’s security thinking,” the BBC said on Friday. Radakin in an interview published on Sunday.
Rumors about the health of Vladimir Putin, who turned 70 in October, could not be verified.
“As military professionals, we see a relatively stable regime in Russia, President Putin has managed to stifle all opposition … and no one at the top has the motivation to challenge it,” he said.
Selon lui, “le défi que pose la Russie va durer” potentiellement pendant “des décennies en termes de menace” et le premier ministre qui succèdera à Boris Johnson, démissionnaire, devra être conscient que la Russie grand est le “la plus” United kingdom.
Radkin told the BBC that the Ukrainian army was “absolutely” confident that it would win the war sparked by Russia’s invasion of the country in February.
According to estimates of the British Army, Russia “lost more than 30% of its ground combat effectiveness.”
“This means that 50,000 Russian soldiers were killed or wounded in this conflict, nearly 1,700 Russian tanks were destroyed, and nearly 4,000 Russian-owned armored vehicles were destroyed,” Radakin said.
The situation in Ukraine will dominate the military calculations of the future prime minister, who will replace Boris Johnson in September. Then we will have to remind the Prime Minister of the extraordinary responsibility he has for the United Kingdom as a nuclear power.
Mr Radkin was also asked about a BBC investigation which this week revealed that at least 54 people were killed in suspicious circumstances in Afghanistan, a British Special Forces commander, in suspicious circumstances in Afghanistan, facts their superiors had hidden .
The Military Police have already established that this “did not happen”, but they will reconsider the matter if new concrete evidence emerges, engulfing Mr. Radakin.
