Ukraine news LIVE: Inside the destruction of Putin’s trusted inner circle as ‘net closes on Russian tyrant’

VLADIMIR Putin’s trusted inner circle has been decimated in recent weeks, as Ukrainian resistance fighters ramp up their assassination attempts. Ukrainian guerrilla fighters are ramping up their attempts to destroy Putin’s loyal inner circle, as the “net closes on the Russian tyrant.” Former NATO chief Gary Tabach, now based in Kyiv, has said Ukraine has a “priority list” of targets it wants to see dead, with hated Putin in top spot. “Putin has been on that list for a long time by many people,” he said. “Ukrainian special ops will go for what will cause the most damage, the most effect on the population and set fear into people who corroborate with the Russians. “They want collaborators to know that if they’re going to work for the enemy then they have to be prepared to die for it because we’re going to be hunting you down.” A series of the dictator’s most trusted allies have been taken out in recent weeks. This includes pro-Putin local official Volodymyr Saldo, as well as Askyar Laishev, who worked for Ukraine’s secret service before swapping sides in 2014, and was wiped out in a car bomb blast in Luhansk in July. Read our Ukraine-Russia blog below for the latest updates…