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Vladimir Putin’s mouthpieces issued horrific threats to destroy Britain with nuclear missiles and send the country underwater at the same time the dictator was talking “peace” to Donald Trump’s envoys in the Kremlin.
Moscow staged a simultaneous show of strength by forcing NATO to scramble warplanes to escort Russian Tu-22M3 strategic bombers which patrolled over the Baltic Sea.
Almost four hours of late night “peace talks” involving Putin and Trump emissaries Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner ended with the Kremlin ruling out ending the war in Ukraine without Kyiv surrendering the Donbas region.
While face to face talks involving Russian, Ukrainian and US officials will go ahead on Friday and Saturday in Abu Dhabi, the Russian ruler shows no sign of compromise on his aim of dismembering Ukraine as the price of peace.
State-funded Russian TV made explicit nuclear attack threats that Britain “will simply cease to exist” even as the Kremlin talks were getting underway.
Putin advisor Sergei Karaganov, known as Professor Doomsday, told viewers: “One of the targets should be, at least, Britain
“And we need to be prepared, and the British need to know that we have the capability to deliver a disarming and decapitating strike.
“We can deliver it, but with a warning, of course, that if even one warhead from any of them reaches Russia.
“Well, from what remains, if anything remains, then the strike will be on cities and Britain will simply cease to exist.
“This is a completely normal strategy, which should be absolutely obvious and communicated to our British…enemies.”
His words made a mockery of attempts to secure a peace deal in Ukraine that leaves Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s country as a viable state.
Putin’s leading TV propagandist Vladimir Solovyov repeated his demand to unleash untested high speed underwater nuclear-capable drone Poseidon on Britain, sinking the country under a tidal wave.
“I see that there are two countries that have nuclear weapons on European territory, these are Britain and France…
“And given the traditional Russophobia of the English, I do not rule out the possibility that at the first opportunity they will supply either components for a dirty nuclear bomb or tactical nuclear weapons to Ukraine.
“They are already supplying everything they can and will try to strike.
“Therefore, it seems to me that England is a much more systematic enemy of ours.
“That is why I would perhaps strike there first.”
After Britain was underwater “the main thing is that our ships don’t scrape the bottom with Big Ben”.
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