The head of Britain’s armed forces has said that speculation President Putin is gravely ill or could be assassinated is “wishful thinking”.
Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, chief of the defence staff, was asked if the Russian leader could be toppled or face regime change. He told Sophie Raworth on BBC1’s Sunday Morning: “I think some of the comments that he’s not well or that actually surely somebody’s going to assassinate him or take him out, I think they’re wishful thinking.
“As military professionals we see a relatively stable regime in Russia. Putin has been able to quash any opposition, we see a hierarchy that is invested in President Putin and so nobody at the top has got the motivation to challenge President Putin, and
