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We want to kill Putin - Ukrainian deputy intelligence chief

We want to kill Putin - Ukrainian deputy intelligence chief --Vadim Skibitsky claimed to the media that the Russian president can feel Kiev's operatives "getting closer to him" | 24 May 2023 | Russian President Vladimir Putin is on Ukraine's kill list, the deputy chief of the country's intelligence agency has revealed. Vadim Skibitsky added that his subordinates are also hunting down top Russian military commanders. Speaking to Germany's Die Welt media outlet on Wednesday, Skibitsky was asked whether his service is trying to assassinate the Russian head of state. The Ukrainian official replied by saying that President Putin "notices that we're getting ever closer to him." ...He added that his subordinates were "trying to kill" Evgeny Prighozhin, the head of the Wagner private military company. Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov have also been marked for elimination by the Ukrainian intelligence service, its deputy chief claimed.