Russian intelligence services have proposed staging an assassination attempt against the Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban, with the aim of boosting his popularity ahead of the crucial parliamentary elections in April, in which his retention of power is at stake, reported The Washington Post on Saturday, citing a Russian report, according to EFE, informs Agerpres.
The Staging of the Assassination Attempt on Viktor Orban
In an internal report of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), obtained and authenticated by a European intelligence service and verified by the newspaper, Russian agents proposed a way to “radically change the entire paradigm of the election campaign” by “staging an assassination attempt against Viktor Orban”.
“An incident of this kind could shift the perception of the campaign from the rational sphere of socio-economic issues to an emotional one, where the key themes will become state security, as well as the stability and defense of the political system,” the authors of the proposal wrote in the memorandum.
It is unclear to what levels of the Russian executive the proposal of the Foreign Intelligence Service has reached. The Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, dismissed The Washington Post’s questions about the document, which he described as “disinformation”, while the SVR refused to respond.
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