#Kremlin is preemptively accusing #Ukraine for possible assassination of #Prigozhin. Looks like Putin wants to keep his options open to remove him. This playbook already used by #FSB during the war to prepare domestic information space before they proceed with assassination.

Note that after such public declarations accusing Ukraine of a future assassination, sometimes the FSB then proceeded to actually assassinate, while other times the target was kept alive. I'd wager that Putin has not yet made a decision on whether to liquidate Prigozhin.