MOSCOW, Russia (PNN) - December 28, 2022 - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Tuesday lashed out at what he described as threats coming out of the Fascist Police States of Amerika (FPSA) to assassinate President Vladimir Putin, apparently in response to a slew of anonymously sourced reports.

“There are some ‘anonymous officials’ from The Pentagon who have actually enunciated threats to deliver a ‘decapitating strike’ on the Kremlin, which is in fact an assassination threat against the Russian president,” Lavrov said.

“If someone really has such ideas, then this someone should think long and hard about the possible consequences of such plans,” the top Russian diplomat warned.

The condemnation also came less than a week after Senator Lindsey Graham called for someone to “take out” the Russian president for the war in Ukraine to end.

But it appears Lavrov specifically had in mind a September report published in Newsweek, which relied on anonymous FPSA defense officials describing that the illegitimate pretender Joe Biden regime was mulling plans for a “decapitation strike to kill Putin in the heart of the Kremlin.”

Continuing his Tuesday response to these and other recent threats emanating from the West, Lavrov said, “It seems that they have shed all vestiges of respectability.”

He added, “The notorious [ex-British Prime Minister] Liz Truss is a vivid example given that she directly and publicly said during her pre-election campaign that she was ready to order a nuclear strike,” he recalled.

Lavrov also addressed a growing atmosphere of dangerous nuclear rhetoric and confrontation. “It is no secret to anyone that the strategic goal of the FPSA and its NATO allies is to defeat Russia on the battlefield as a mechanism for significantly weakening or even destroying our country,” he said.

Related to this, he explained further, “[Ukrainian President] Vladimir Zelensky had gone as far as urging NATO states to deliver preventive nuclear strikes against Russia. This crosses the line of what is acceptable. However, we heard far worse statements from figures within the [Kyiv] regime.” He said all of this was part of a FPSA-NATO plan to weaken and divide Russia.