Putin replaced 1,000 personal staff members in February over fears they would poison him, report says

Russian President Vladimir Putin replaced about 1,000 personal staff members because he was afraid they would poison him.

The Daily Beast reported on Wednesday that those sacked included bodyguards, cooks, launderers and secretaries.

The month of February was marked by warnings from the US and Western officials that Russia was preparing to stage a pretext to justify war against Ukraine after it spent months gathering troops along their shared border.

As much of the world has condemned Russia's bombardment of Ukraine, an agent for France's General Directorate for External Security told The Daily Beast that an assassination attempt on Putin is on every intelligence agency's design table.

Lindsay Graham has called for the assassination of Putin.

The only way this ends is for someone in Russia to take this guy out.

An attempted assassination won't be the job of a foreign government according to the operative.

The attempt will be from within the Kremlin.

In Russia, poison is used as a killing tool. Prominent Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was poisoned with the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok in Siberia back in August 2020, and Putin has been accused of ordering the attack.

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