Vladimir Putin’s UK nuke targets leaked – with Hull amongst three precedence hits
Mad Vlad’s UK targets for nuclear inhalation have been disclosed.
A leaked dossier revealed Putin’s sinister hit list of 32 nuclear missile targets across Europe, three of which are in the UK.
A factory in Hull, a shipyard in Cumbria and an undisclosed target in Edinburgh all face a blasting, reports LBC, should the Russian despot carry out plans to decimate Europe, as experts fear.
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It’s thought the Cumbria target is the Royal Navy’s submarine shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness, while a shipyard at Rosyth, just out of Scotland’s capital, is believed to be the Scottish target.
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The Financial Times have seen the 29 leaked papers, which predates Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
The documents also revealed that ships from Russia ’s Northern fleet based out of Murmansk would lead the strikes on Britain, with the country’s Baltic fleet in Kaliningrad would target France and Germany.
Putin also has nuclear targets in Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey and Japan.
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The leaked documents back up NATO’s belief that Putin’s regime poses a nucelar threat, experts agree.
Former NATO man William Alberque said the sample was a tiny portion of “hundreds, if not thousands, of targets mapped across Europe . . . including military and critical infrastructure targets”.
Professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, California Jeffrey Lewis said nuclear artillery are “war-winning weapons” in Russia’s eyes.
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He said: “They’re going to want to use them, and they’re going to want to use them pretty quickly.”
The revelations come just days after Russia was accused of setting Europe’s biggest nuclear plant ablaze.
Images show giant plumes of smoke billowing from a chimney stack at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station, situated in a Russian-held area of southeast Ukraine.
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Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy hit out at Vladimir Putin’s forces for targeting the site in spite of repeated warnings about its safety precautions.
Yevhen Yevtushenko, head of Ukraine’s Nikopol military administration, claims Russian troops set car tyres alight in the nuclear plant’s cooling towers to simulate a fire far more frightening, The Mirror reports.
Already, Putin has begun using thermobaric weapons against Ukraine, with Russian troops deploying the weapon as Ukrainian soldiers advance into the Kursk region.
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The devastating munitions, also known as aerosol bombs, are known for intense heat and pressure capable of vaporising human bodies.
According to Sky News, the use of the powerful “vacuum bomb” came as the Russian Army conducted airstrikes against Ukrainian forces.
The broadcaster did not say exactly where it had exploded, but Ukrainian officials claimed Thermobaric weapons were previously dropped in February 2022.
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