Vladimir Putin should destroy “damned” Britain by sinking it under the sea, demanded former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev.
The threat came as the Kremlin staged strategic missile exercises with its nuclear-capable Yars rockets in Siberia to mark the dictator’s 72nd birthday amid high tensions with the West.
Giant mobile launchers were used on remote routes in the Novosibirsk region of southern Russia to exercise searching for positions to launch nuclear strikes.
The dictator’s crony responded on his Telegram channel to a claim by sports star Yelena Välbe that all the Kremlin’s problems would be solved by bombing London.
“Our famous skier Yelena Välbe suggested dropping a bomb on London,” said Medvedev, now Putin’s deputy on the Kremlin security council.
“That’s right, of course, but we have to solve the problem at the root and immediately sink the **** island of Anglo-Saxon dogs.”
Russian Yars mobile missile launchers deployed for combat patrols in the Novosibirsk region of Russia in undated images
The Russian Defense Ministry published images of the military exercises on October 7.
The Kremlin organized strategic missile exercises with its nuclear-capable Yars rockets in Siberia to mark the dictator’s 72nd birthday.
Their vitriol reflects the Kremlin’s calculation that the United Kingdom is the biggest international supporter of Ukraine and the most enthusiastic supporter of the United States giving the green light to the use of long-range Western missiles to attack Russian territory.
Skier Välbe, 56, a highly decorated athlete and currently president of the Russian Cross-Country Ski Federation, said: “I think if we dropped a major bomb in the center of London, it would all be over by now and we would be allowed everywhere. parts.
You know, Russia’s struggle with the outside world has gone on for centuries. We have never been loved.
‘Even when they pretended to let us in everywhere, they didn’t like us.
‘As I say, they always have a dagger behind their back.
“I love it when the country is strong and I guess it’s our strength that irritates the whole world.”
He somehow believed that if Britain was destroyed, other countries would stop boycotting Russia, even allowing it to return to the Olympics.
A propaganda channel recently simulated a Russian nuclear attack on London that would cause 850,000 deaths and two million injuries.
Russian launch of Sarmat ICBM on April 20, 2022
“If we imagine that in any of the last six centuries the British Isles suddenly sank into the ocean, then for the rest of the world, effectively, there would be fewer problems for a certain time,” he said.
But imagining that Britain no longer exists, “others will fill the vacant place,” he warned.
Former boxer Nikolai Valuev, 51, now an MP for the Putin-backing Kremlin-loyal United Russia Party, said: “If we imagine that in any of the last six centuries, the British Isles suddenly sank into the ocean, then for the rest of the world, in fact, there would be fewer problems for a given time.’
But if Britain no longer existed, “others will fill the vacant place,” he warned.
The giant mobile launchers were driven to remote routes in the Novosibirsk regions to exercise searching for positions to launch nuclear strikes.
Putin’s propagandists and entourage have repeatedly warned that he could use nuclear weapons.
Dmitry Kiselyov, 70, considered the autocrat’s most trusted television spokesman, recently warned that the United Kingdom would become a target if Britain gave Ukraine the green light to fire its Storm Shadow missiles at Russian territory.
Images of the Yars launchers were obtained from the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) on Monday, October 7, along with a statement stating: “Autonomous launchers of the ‘Yars’ mobile land-based missile system have been deployed on combat patrol routes in Novosibirsk missile division.
The Russian Defense Ministry added: “Strategic missile troops are working on tasks and objectives, including intensive maneuver actions on combat patrol routes as part of their combat duty.
“The crews of the mobile land-based missile systems “Yars” carry out marches of up to 100 kilometers, carry out technical preparation of field positions, organize camouflage and ensure combat security.
‘The military will also practice the fight against sabotage and reconnaissance groups.
“These planned combat training activities make it possible to check the readiness of personnel, as well as weapons and military equipment, for long-term service in field conditions.”
On the other hand, a propaganda channel simulated a Russian nuclear attack on London that would cause 850,000 deaths and two million injuries.
The broadcast of the four-minute video with English commentary last month is apparently part of a concerted campaign to scare Britain into not giving Ukraine permission to allow Storm Shadow missiles to hit targets inside Russia.
Putin’s propagandists and entourage have repeatedly warned that he could use nuclear weapons, although Ukraine has long dismissed the threats as mere “saber rattling” intended to deter its allies from providing more support.