Vladimir Putin further ramped up his rhetoric threatening to unleash a missile with the “power of a meteorite”.
He hit out at Ukraine and the West for allowing Kyiv to target Russian territory with US or UK long range missiles.
Playing God, he appeared to signal a “meteorite” weapon attack on the Ukrainian government and Volodymyr Zelinsky’s administration in Kyiv, evidently referring to his new Oreshnik hypersonic missile.
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“I have already said that these are quite powerful elements that are heated up to a temperature of 4,000 degrees centigrade,” threatened 72 -year-old Putin who has been in power as president or prime minister for more than a quarter of a century.
“Well, I don’t know, you can look on the internet at the surface area of the sun, I think 5,600 to 6,000 degrees is comparable to the temperature on the surface of the sun.
“A kinetic impact, a massive impact.
“Like a meteorite falling.
“We know in history how and what meteorites fell where and what the consequences were.
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“It was enough to form whole lakes, wasn’t it?
“What did the Tunguska meteorite do [in Siberia, 1908]
“We know.”
He referred to a notorious meteorite strike on the Krasnoyarsk region of tsarist Russia with consequences similar to a nuclear bomb.
“ It’s the same here. And the impact is very serious,” said Putin, in Astana, the Kazakhstan capital.
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“Everything in the centre turns into ash, decomposes into its constituent elements, and the objects located three or four or maybe even more floors down are affected.
“And not just floors, but fortified structures.
“The force of the impact is enormous.
“But you can, of course, add more, and it will be even more powerful.
“The main thing is that [it] has been created, it works and works as planned by its creators.
“It is a….weapon of high power.”
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