In the midst of the UK’s support for Ukraine, a Putin associate warned of strikes on the ‘British Isles.’
In response to the UK’s assistance for Ukraine during the continuing conflict, Russian official television has broadcast mocked-up clips of nuclear weapons destroying the British Isles.
The clips were introduced by Dmitry Kiselyov, a close acquaintance of Russian President Vladimir Putin who is seen as a Kremlin propagandist, on the state-owned television channel Russia-1. Russia-1 is the most popular television channel in the country.
Mr. Kiselyov speaks of an attack on the “British Isles” in the video, which shows footage of the Irish and British islands being wiped off the map by a nuclear weapon.
“It actually seems like they’re raving on the British Isles,” Mr. Kiselyov claims, after falsely alleging that UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson had threatened Russia with nuclear war.
“Why threaten neverending Russia when you’re on an island which is, you know, is so small,” he adds.
“The island is so small that just one Sarmat missile is sufficient to sink it once and for all. Everything has been calculated already,” he claims, as a graphic shows a blast erasing Ireland and Britain from the map.
Mr. Kiselyov talks about employing a Poseidon nuclear underwater drone, an experimental Russian weapon, to “plunge the British Isles into the depths of the sea”.
“It approaches its target at a depth of 1km at a speed of 200km/h. There’s no way of stopping this underwater drone,” he tells viewers.
“The warhead has a yield of up to 100 megatons and will cause a gigantic tidal wave up to 500m high. Such a barrage alone also carries extreme doses of radiation,” he claims.
A computer simulation depicts the missile exploding off the northeastern coast of Co Donegal, causing a tidal surge that wipes out both islands.
It's Sunday night in Russia which means that state TV's Dmitry Kiselyov is talking about Russia using its nukes
— Francis Scarr (@francis_scarr) May 1, 2022
This time, with the help of a terrifying cartoon, he claims that "one Sarmat missile is enough to sink the British Isles" (with subs) pic.twitter.com/NqbQfkm6rX
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