‘He who is fated to be hanged won’t drown’: Vladimir Putin appears to confirm attempts to assassinate him – Telegraph.co.uk

Vladimir Putin has appearedto confirmduring an interview that he has survived multiple assassination attempts.

The Russian president made the comments in excerpts from a series of interviews with JFK director OliverStone,that will be aired later this month.

In previews of the interviews, released on Thursday evening, Mr Putin and Mr Stone discuss attitudes to death. Asked by Mr Stone about five alleged assassination attempts, Mr Putin said his security team look after him and that "up to now they haven't done badly."

"I trust them," he added when asked if he feared assassins could infiltrate his security detail.

"You know what our people say: he who is fated to be hanged won't drown," he adds to Stone, who does not have an immediate answer.

Asked what his own fate would be, he said: "Only God knows our fate."

In anothersegment, Mr Putin defended Edward Snowden, saying he waswas wrong to leak details US intelligence eavesdropping programs but is not a traitor to the United States.

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