A ranting Russian politician has gone on state TV to threaten Britain with nuclear war and even showing Moscow’s missiles hitting the UK in just 202 seconds.
As the 60 Minutes programme showed the impact of Sarmat, or so called “Satan II”, nuclear missiles on Germany, France and the UK, chairman of the Nationalist Rodina party, Aleksey Zhuravlyov, declared: "one Sarmat missile and the British Isles will be no more." The leading ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin added: "That's how you talk to them."
It is the latest in worsening rhetoric about Russian retaliation on the west for helping support Ukraine militarily in its defence against Putin’s bloody invasion. The war has killed tens of thousands and left millions without homes.
As Zhuravlyov ranted, one of the hoists says despairingly: “The UK also has nuclear weapons, no-one will survive this war. No-one on the planet.” But Zhuravlyov persists: “This missile can’t be shot down. Their abilities are limited."
He adds: “They need to be shown this picture. That’s the way. Let them think about it. Count to 200 seconds. That's how you talk to them.” Challenged by one of the hosts, Zhuravlyov insisted he was 'serious'.
Viewers were shown a map simulating Sarmat missiles being lunched from Russian territory on the Baltic coast and impacting Berlin in 106 seconds, Paris in 200 seconds and London in 202 seconds. Zhuravlyov adds: "Get a stopwatch, count 200 seconds. That's how you talk to them."
The TV debate appeared to be a reaction to growing tension in Moscow over the UK and other western nations ramping up military support for Ukraine in its war with Russia. Western weapons, including UK anti-tank missiles, have left a devastating trail of destruction through Russian ranks in Ukraine.
Putin has already ordered test-firing of its Sarmat hypersonic missiles which he claims are able to penetrate any western defences.
The 60 Minutes show on Thursday came as Britain's Defence Minister Ben Wallace warned that crews of Britain’s nuclear weapon-armed submarines were “deep underwater, hiding, waiting, in case Britain needs to be protected”.
And Armed Forces Minister James Heappey also said strikes by Ukraine on Russian soil would be 'completely legitimate' if they disrupted supply lines. Ukraine has attacked oil storage areas near its borders which are in Russia.
Heappey said: “It is completely legitimate for Ukraine to be targeting in Russia's depth in order to disrupt the logistics that if they weren't disrupted would directly contribute to death and carnage on Ukrainian soil. There are lots of countries around the world that operate kit that they have imported from other countries; when those bits of kit are used we tend not to blame the country that manufactured it, you blame the country that fired it.”
Zhuravlyov is chairman of the right wing Rodina political party which supports Vladimir Putin in the Russian parliament, the State Duma.
In a tweet sharing the video, Julia Davies, creator of Russian Media Monitor, said: “Russian TV keeps threatening nuclear strikes against Western nations, desperately trying to deter them from continuing to help Ukraine. On a side note, this is the first state TV host who doesn't seem to be eager to die for the Motherland, arguing with a trigger-happy lawmaker.”
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