From: New Voice of Ukraine 🇺🇦
The U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence declassified a report on targeted killings of opponents to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, Bloomberg reported on Nov. 22.
This is the first time that internal U.S. government documents have confirmed suspicions that Putin is involved in the deaths of high-profile Kremlin critics.
The two-page document, dated July 11, 2016, is titled “Kremlin-Sanctioned Killings Abroad Likely to Continue” and claims that Putin likely authorizes the murders of senior figures abroad. It examines potential political killings since the Russian leader came to power in 2000. Some parts of the report are redacted to protect classified information.
According to intelligence estimates, the first “explicit case” of a killing ordered by Putin abroad occurred in 2004 in Qatar. There, several officers of Russian military intelligence were convicted for the murder of Chechen leader Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, whom the U.S. and the U.N. recognized as a terrorist.
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