Residents of sleepy UK village worry Putin will destroy it with nuke – this is why

A sleepy village nestled in Oxfordshire is fearing the worst from Russian president Vladimir Putin, who could nuke the small settlement if World War Three breaks out.

Brize Norton hosts a inhabitants of beneath 1,000 individuals however its residents are anxious warmonger Putin will take intention at their village. Some residents imagine they’re on prime of the Kremlin’s hit record ought to nuclear warfare happen.

There is a cause behind the fears of nuclear Armageddon in Brize Norton – it is subsequent to the RAF‘s largest base.

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Putin may launch a barrage of nuclear weapons on the sleepy village (file)
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Brize Norton isn’t any stranger to army presence with blacked-out lorries commonly shifting out and in of the calm village. The Sun reviews residents typically should make means for “deadly cargo” heading to the RAF base. Some even declare to have had weapons pointed at them by police.

The cargo is reportedly believed to be “nuclear material”, a key a part of the Trident weapons programme and Britain’s final line of defence in opposition to nuclear Armageddon.

Resident Andrew Golding advised The Sun: “It worries my wife (living next to the base), because of Mr Putin, that’s the only thing that worries her, we’re going to be first. I reassure her by saying ‘you won’t know anything about it’, but that’s all it can be: one is enough.



The base at Brize Norton is the RAF’s largest (file)
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“If he decided to fire one here, that’s us gone, there’s better places to live from that point of view.” Retired couple Rob and Bettie Butler additionally imagine an “awful lot of noise” from fighter jets overhead is a bother for townsfolk.

Rob added: “We know bloody well if there is a war that’s [RAF Brize Norton] one of the first places they’ll hit. So you can just sit here, put your head between your legs and kiss your a**e goodbye.”

Wendy Way, one other villager, believes the bottom would contact them in case of an emergency however it’s “all very under the radar” to this point. Armed police presence is frequent within the slim roads of Brize Norton, which regularly has army transports and cargo planes heading via it.

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