Vladimir Putin is planning to launch a “major killing spree” against his British enemies as he has “lost all restraint”, a Kremlin critic has warned.
Campaigner Bill Browder, 59, who is thought to be top of Putin’s kill list, said that the Russian president has at least 12 targets in the UK that he wants to eliminate.
His comments come after the death of Alexei Navalny, a staunch Putin critic who died last week.
Browder has warned that Putin must be stopped in order to avoid a repeat of the Salisbury Novichok attack where a former Russian double agent and his daughter were poisoned by a nerve agent in a botched assassination attempt.
Putin plotting 'major killing spree' of Britons as Russian President 'loses all restraint'Reuters
The 59-year-old said the murder of Navalny has been a turning point for the Russian president.
“The fact he would kill the most popular and prominent opposition politician in plain sight without fear of repercussion says that people who are opposing Putin in Russia and abroad are now in much more serious risk of assassination.
“The killing of Alexei Navalny has shown Vladimir Putin has lost all restraint and that he will embark on a major international killing spree which will include against all of his enemies in the UK,” he told The Mirror.
“I believe there are at least a dozen people in this country who are at risk and they will focus on the high-profile ones.”
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Alexei Navalny died at 47 in prison last weekREUTERSThe activist also said that politicians should also be wary.
On Monday, Browder spoke with GB News about the best way to punish Putin following the death of Navalny.
He said: “Putin needs to be taught a lesson and there's not much more we can do in terms of narrow individual sanctions, and we should do them of course, but the one thing that we should do now is on a very broad scale and we should help Ukrainians defeat Russia.
“And what does that mean? That means, in the United States, the US Congress is holding up $63billion of military support for Ukraine and I'm hoping that those congressmen who are holding it up now feel embarrassed supporting Putin,” he told Eamonn Holmes and Isabel Webster during a discussion on Breakfast.
“Here on the UK side, we can come up with a plan to confiscate the frozen Russian Central Bank reserves. There's about $300 billion of central bank reserves that were frozen after the war started and that money should be confiscated and handed over to the Ukrainians for their defence and reconstruction.”
Bill Browder spoke with GB News about the best way to punish Putin following the death of Navalny
GB NewsHe stressed that the UK needs to be doing more to stop other political prisoners from dying in jail.
Browder mentioned Vladimir Kara-Murza, a British citizen, who is currently serving 25 years in a political prison.
He added: “I was just reading the reports this morning and, other than one newspaper, they didn't he didn't even mention Alexei Navalny. It's just remarkable. It's like this is the Soviet Union all over again, that they erased him from history almost immediately.
“Putin has never uttered the words Alexei Navalny. These people can't stand to mention the name of somebody who was so beloved by the people. And so beloved because he provided really a breath of fresh air and an alternative from the criminality of the regime.”