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The Ukrainian Interior Ministry has information that the Russian special services are planning to kill the leaders of militants as unwanted witnesses, an adviser to the Ukrainian interior minister, Zorian Shkiriak, has said.

”Based on the information we have received, we can assume that the
Kremlin is ready to ‘shoot’ some leaders of Russian terrorist groups
operating in Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine,” he told
Interfax-Ukraine on Tuesday, July 22.

He said that first and foremost, the issue concerns FSB (Federal
Security Service) and GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate) officers,
militants Igor Girkin-Strelkov (“Strelok”), Igor Bezler (“Bes”) and one
of the leaders of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic, Valeriy
Bolotov.

“The only one of the terrorist leaders who retains the possibility of
returning to Russia is Borodai as the Kremlin’s personal political
strategist,” Shkiriak said.

The Interior Ministry said that after a “monstrous terrorist attack
against the Malaysian Boeing over Torez” committed by Russian military
air defense experts, together with Bezler’s militants, “these people
have become unwanted carriers of impressive compromising evidence
against the Russian president”.

Shkiriak said that Russian border guards had been ordered not to
allow militants to enter Russia and kill them if they attempt to cross
the border. He recalled that cases of such mass executions of
separatists by defensive squads of the Russian border troops on the
Ukrainian-Russian border had already been reported.