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A Russian propagandist showed a simulation of how the UK could meet its end in a nuclear attack.
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‘Just one launch, Boris, and England is gone… Why play with us?’ he said on a state broadcaster.
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The simulation involved a nuclear attack carried out by air or sea.
A Russian propagandist has presented on state television a simulation of a hypothetical nuclear attack that would destroy the UK and Ireland.
Dmitry Kiselyov, a propaganda figure affiliated with Russian President Vladimir Putin, was seen in a May 1 broadcast of “News of the World” shows how the UK could be destroyed by a nuclear attack by air or sea.
“Just one launch, Boris, and England is gone,” Kiselyov said of a computer-generated simulation, referring to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. ‘For once and for all. Why play with us?’
“It’s like they’re romping in the British Isles. Why threaten infinite Russia with nuclear weapons when you’re on an island that, you know, is so small?’ Kiseljov said. He added that “just one Sarmat missile” would be enough to sink him once and for all.
Another way to “put England on the seabed” would be to use the Russian “Poseidon” underwater drone, Kiseljov noted.
“It is approaching the target at a depth of one kilometer at 200 kilometers per hour. There is no way to stop this underwater drone. The warhead on it is up to 100 megatons,” he claimed.
Kiseljov It then stated that the “explosion of this thermonuclear torpedo” off the British coast would cause a tsunami up to 500 meters high.
“Such a water shower is also a carrier of extreme doses of radiation,” he said. At the same time, the simulation showed a green “wave” representing radioactive material washing across a map of the UK and Ireland.
“After passing through the British Isles, what’s left of it will turn into a radioactive desert, unsuitable for anything for a long time,” Kiselyov said.
John Everard, the UK’s former ambassador to Belarus, told RTE he did not believe Russia had a weapon that could destroy the UK and Ireland, according to the image on Russian TV.
“I would urge everyone to keep calm. If you think strongly about it, make your things clear to the Russians. But please don’t forget that this is just a television model,” Everard told the newspaper. †
“The Russians don’t have this weapon. I’ll say it again, they don’t have this weapon,” he added per RTE.
Johnson met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kiev in April and promised the UK would send armored vehicles and anti-ship missiles to aid it in its fight against the Russians. In the same month, Johnson also said some Ukrainian troops in the UK are being trained to use those armored vehicles.
Last week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the possibility of a nuclear conflict breaking out as a result of the war in Ukraine is “serious” and “real”. In 2018, Putin also threatened to unleash nuclear weapons if the country was attacked.
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