Leaked documents suggest that the Russian military are trained to strike three locations up north.
Yep, it seems Vladimir Putin has a drawn up list of places in the UK to go after in the event of a war with NATO.
Last year, an alleged list of British places that the Russian president had put a target on were revealed, among 32 different areas in Europe, as reported by the Financial Times.
These secret nuclear papers states that the country could unleash massive pre-emptive attacks ‘from various directions’ if the situation was to arise. They seemed to reveal that Russia’s warships are primed to use tactical nuclear weapons in the early stages.
It’s no secret that Putin has beef with a number of nations, and a pro-Kremlin TV anchor has been pretty vocal about Brit blood being shed.
Three sites were listed as potential nuclear targets. (Getty Stock)
Vladimir Solovyov has been speaking out this since Russia first invaded Ukraine, and has continued to recently warn that UK and French troops ‘will all die’ if they get involved.
He’s also warned of the ‘consequences’ the UK and US will face if they carry on ‘directly waging war’ against them.
And pretty understandably, the current tensions across the globe like this have left many people concerned about the prospect of World War 3 – especially with Donald Trump frequently throwing those words around.
If Putin was to make good on these kind of threats to the UK, it would end up triggering an international conflict with us being a founding member of NATO.
The alleged list of places he’d take aim at are found up north, as the country would likely get attacked by ships from Russia’s Northern Fleet, headquartered in Murmansk.
In Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria, the Royal Navy’s nuclear submarine shipyard is thought to be one of the main targets to go after.
Putin could target the UK. (GAVRIIL GRIGOROV/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Then, a factory in Hull was said to be marked with a smokestack.
And thirdly, it is thought a shipyard at Rosyth where the Royal Navy’s aircraft carriers HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales were built is a target nearby Edinburgh.
The documents were said to be drawn up between 2008 and 2014, and although they were a decade old, experts reckoned that the files remain relevant due to the current state of the world, according to the Financial Times.
Former NATO official William Alberque said that documents were just a small amount of ‘hundreds, if not thousands, of targets mapped across Europe…including military and critical infrastructure targets’.
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Topics: Russia, UK News
A simulation has revealed the extent of damage that a nuclear strike would cause the UK, after a Russian propagandist said the nation would ‘kill us all’.
Documents were previously leaked that seemingly exposed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s potential targets across the world if he were to go nuclear, revealing some surprising locations.
A dossier of documents dated between 2008 and and 2014 were said to have plotted out Russian targets in Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Iran, China, Korea and Japan, among others, reported the Financial Times.
As for the UK, some locations that were targeted included a factory in Hull, a shipyard in Cumbria and an unknown site near Edinburgh.
Further digging found that these locations could have strong links to the nation’s military, as a Royal Navy submarine shipyard is located in Barrow-in-Furness, in addition to a further shipyard in Edinburgh, where HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales were built.
People are worried Putin could kickstart WW3 (GAVRIIL GRIGOROV/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
These were all among 32 different areas in Europe that could be hit with a nuclear warhead if Putin were to take it there.
With an ongoing trade war and unrest between the US, NATO, Russia, and Ukraine, talks of World War 3 have resurfaced as some of Putin’s allies have openly taunted and threatened the UK, among other nations.
One of these is pro-Kremlin TV anchor Vladimir Solovyov, who has not held back in talking about Brits being targeted in potential attacks.
Recently, he’s told British and French troops that they ‘will all die’ if they were to be sent into Ukraine.
In a rant on local TV, he said: “You can station them wherever you want. We will kill you all, and we will kill you all.
“Just as we killed all of you who came to Kursk [region] and did not have time to run away or surrender. We will kill you all.”
Solovyov has not been shy when it comes to threatening other countries in the name of Russia (Artem Priakhin/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
This follows the resurfacing of a simulation played on Russian TV of what would really happen if this particular warhead were to be launched off the coast of Britain.
It would cause a radioactive tidal wave, wiping out the entire country and sending it underwater.
A different news presenter, Dmitry Kiselyov, chillingly said that the 100-megaton bomb would cause a 500-metre tsunami to engulf the UK.
He added: “It will turn what is left of them into a radioactive desert, unfit for anything for a long time
Calling Britain a ‘small island’, he can be heard taunting then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson into getting involved in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Solovyov has also held up his threats towards the UK, also saying in the past that Russia could wipe Britain off the map with ‘one Sarmat missile’.
Tension between the world’s leading nations isn’t going anywhere though, and if Putin were to follow through and attack the UK, they would be declaring a war on NATO, effectively starting the third worldwide conflict in our history.
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Topics: Russia, Vladimir Putin, UK News
A political expert has shared a chilling prediction about what he thinks would happen if Vladimir Putin were to trigger wide-scale war in Europe.
It would seem that Russian propagandists sure love nothing more than mouthing off about the prospect of global war and nuclear annihilation, don’t they.
In the last couple of weeks we’ve had pro-Kremlin talking heads tell British and French troops that they ‘will all die’ should they step foot in Ukraine.
Russia has also previously wheeled out simulations showing how a nuclear strike would ‘sink’ the entire country and ‘leaked’ lists of nuclear targets in the UK.
The Russian threats have also coincided with a series of ominous warnings from EU leaders urging citizens to prepare 72-hour survival kits should the unthinkable happen and ministers in Germany calling for children to receive civil defence training.
So it’s understandable if you’re feeling like things are pretty apocalyptic at the moment.
One expert believes we’d avoid nuclear war, but the alternative isn’t much better (Getty Stock Images)
Thankfully threats from the east haven’t materialised into actual acts of war as of yet, but if war were to spill out across the European continent then one political expert believes it wouldn’t end well for us Brits.
Outlining how the Russian leader could declare war, the University of Buckingham’s Professor Anthony Glees explained to The Mirror last February that conflict with Putin would unfold in three steps.
Threats made against western nations
Professor Glees began by outline a hypothetical situation by stating that should Russia be able to declare victory in Ukraine, Putin would then follow up by putting pressure on former USSR countries which joined NATO after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
This includes countries such as Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Hungary.
He believed the Russian leader would also attempt to ‘subvert our democratic system’ in order to divide nations such as the UK.
Putin’s pro-Kremlin talking heads do sure love to talk big when it comes to war (GAVRIIL GRIGOROV/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
“His skill set is of the Soviet intelligence community, and their aim has always been to make threats, to subvert and to hollow out their potential enemies,” he explained.
An attack on NATO
Should war break out and nuclear weapons not be deployed, Professor Glees stated that it would be a ‘war of attrition’ as the two sides gradually ground each other down.
Meanwhile things would also become pretty grim on the home front, as resources such as ‘fresh food’ and ‘petrol’ would become scarce.
“We would run out of fresh food in days. We would quickly see a black market for home-produced food and clothing,” he said.
The historian also speculated that Russia could target ‘critical national infrastructure’ in order to inflict maximum upheaval on our day-to-day lives.
“Petrol and diesel would be virtually unobtainable for ordinary people. Medicines would quickly be subject to severe rationing and would soon disappear altogether.”
He also suggested that conscription, something which the UK government has previously ruled out, would be put into
We become a Russian satellite state
The final stage of Professor Glees rather depressing scenario involves the UK becoming ‘a Russian colony’ and led by a pro-Kremlin puppet leader while resistance movements would organise from places such as Wales and Scotland.
He predicts this scenario could take as little as a month to come true in the advent of conventional war, which would be a tall order for a country which has taken just 20 percent of Ukraine in three years.
If this is the alternative to nuclear war, then maybe the bomb doesn’t sound too bad after all.
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Topics: Vladimir Putin, World News, Russia
A list of Vladimir Putin’s potential targets in the UK were previously leaked, according to reports, and some of them might surprise you.
The Russian President, 72, is alleged to have drawn up a list of sites in Great Britain which he would blast nuclear missiles at in the event of a war with NATO.
And seen as though a host of his key allies keep antagonising the UK with threats and taunts, it seems as good a time as any to refresh ourselves on them.
Pro-Kremlin TV anchor Vladimir Solovyov has been very vocal about the prospect of Brits’ blood being shed since Russia first invaded Ukraine, and he shows no signs of slowing down.
Over the last few weeks, he has warned that UK and French troops ‘will all die’, while urging troops to ‘stay at home’ if they know what’s good for them.
It came after Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said he was ‘ready and willing’ to send forces to Ukraine to provide security guarantees to in the event of a ceasefire, while French President Emmanuel Macron also signed up to the plan.
And Solovyov has just issued another concerning threat while discussing the UK and US on his show, claiming the countries were ‘directly waging war against’ Russia while warning of the ‘consequences’ they will face.
Putin’s alleged list of UK targets was leaked last year (GAVRIIL GRIGOROV/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Solovyov said: “You don’t understand the main thing. We see right through your coalition of peacemakers, who are not peacemakers but basically interventionists, will be destroyed.
“You have to realise that not only the frontline units you’re planning to deploy on the territory of Ukraine will be destroyed, but since we can’t perceive it in any other way other than the direct participation of your countries, you will feel the consequences, the likes of which you have never seen.”
As this is a bloke who also previously stated that ‘one Sarmat [missile] means minus one Great Britain’, it’s clear he’s got an axe to grind with the UK.
The current tensions across the globe have left a lot of people concerned about the prospect of World War 3, and Solovyov’s continuous comments only heighten that concern.
That’s because if Putin did decide to make good on his threats to the UK, as we’re a founding member of NATO, it would trigger an international conflict.
In February last year, an alleged list of places which the leader had put a bullseye on were revealed – including a factory in Hull, a shipyard in Cumbria and an unknown site near Edinburgh.
These spots were among 32 different areas in Europe which could be on the receiving end of a nuclear warhead in the event of a conflict between Russia and NATO.
A dossier of documents drawn up between 2008 and 2014, reported by the Financial Times, were said to have also included maps plotting out Russian targets in Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Iran, China, Korea and Japan.
Russia reportedly eyed up a string of key locations to fire at in the UK (Getty Stock Photo)
The publication suggested that the unnamed target in Cumbria could possibly be the Royal Navy’s submarine shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness, which has been in operation since its inception in 1886.
Russia may have also been eyeing up a similar site in Edinburgh, as there’s a shipyard in Rosyth where the Royal Navy aircraft carriers, HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales, were built.
It was suspected that this may have been the target in Scotland.
The exact location of the Hull factory which was supposedly also in the firing line was unclear.
The documents reportedly showed that ships from Russia’s Northern fleet would launch the attacks on the UK if and when Putin give the go ahead.
Although they were a decade old, experts reckoned that the files remain relevant due to the current state of the world, according to the Financial Times.
Former NATO official William Alberque said that documents were just a small amount of ‘hundreds, if not thousands, of targets mapped across Europe…including military and critical infrastructure targets’.
Six UK towns which were also said to be a prime target for Russian forces were also revealed last year, due to their historical connections to the Armed Forces.
But not to worry, as the safest place to be in the UK in the event that any of this madness does erupt has also previously been revealed.
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Topics: Vladimir Putin, Russia, UK News, Politics
One of Vladimir Putin’s staunch allies has issued a chilling threat to UK troops, warning they ‘will all die’ if they step foot in Ukraine.
Britain was used as the butt of the joke once again during Vladimir Solovyov’s latest TV rant, which comes just a week after the Russian President himself ridiculed our economy and armed forces.
Amid Sir Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron’s promise to deploy an Anglo-French ‘reassurance force’ to Ukraine following a ceasefire deal, Putin made a series of scathing comments.
Speaking during a visit to an Arctic naval base on 27 March, the Russian President said: “[Britain] is jumping on us, behaving aggressively… but their economy is, I think, in the ninth or tenth place in the world.
“Hence the armed forces – what is it, 170,000 or 180,000? That’s all the armed forces of the UK.”
Putin’s ally issued the warning to UK and French troops shortly after the Russian President made scathing comments of his own (GAVRIIL GRIGOROV/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
And now, Russian TV presenter Solovyov – who is one of Putin’s most prominent supporters – has jumped on the bandwagon.
The 61-year-old has warned that British and French troops should prepare to be slaughtered if they are sent to Ukraine on peacekeeping missions, the Mirror reports.
Solovyov told his viewers: “I learned with interest today that the British are watching us, quoting me. Yes, you will all die – who come to our land.
“And the French too, by the way. You’ll all die…stay at home. The Americans have already realised that.”
Solovyov had shared a similar sentiment while on air last week, suggesting that British and French troops wouldn’t last long if they are sent to Ukraine.
Vladimir Solovyov warned that peacekeeping troops who could potentially be sent to Ukraine would ‘all die’ (Artem Priakhin/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
“What contingents can Britain prepare? Well, we’ve already buried a lot of Brits here, and a lot of Frenchmen,” Putin’s pal said. “Well, come [to Ukraine], all of you, all of you die.”
It’s not the first time that Solovyov has fired shots at the UK either, as he had a lot to say about us lot shortly after Russia began its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Putin warned the world that anyone who interfered in the conflict would be on the receiving end of ‘lightning fast’ missile attacks in response.
He made reference to his nation’s armoury of deadly weapons, which includes the fearsome Sarmat missile, before Solovyov made some scary comments of his own.
The TV host said at the time, according to the New York Post: “One Sarmat means minus one Great Britain,” while saying that the UK has ‘gotten totally boorish’ while speaking of a potential attack.
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