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Putin regime threatens UK with nuclear apocalypse and 'painful' radiation death

Putin regime threatens UK with nuclear apocalypse and 'painful' radiation death

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Kremlin propagandists Vladdimir Solovyov threatened Brits with "painful" radiation deaths and urged Welsh and Scottish people to declare independence from London before it was too late
The Putin regime is mocking Sir Keir Starmer over his "war footing" defence review warning of the Russian threat.
The Kremlin's most prominent TV propaganda show warned of nuclear Armageddon facing Britain with 'painful' radiation deaths. And the Kremlin-funded broadcast urged the Scots and Welsh to declare independence from London before it was too late. The Putin broadcast claimed that a 'very pretty' woman standing beside Starmer at his defence review announcement showed - from her expressions - that many Britons doubted his strategy in making the UK 'battle ready' to fight Russia.


Leading Putin TV mouthpiece Vladimir Solovyov declared: 'I can't understand why the British have gone mad [with the new UK defence review]. Where do they want to clash with us? At what point?
'Or do they think that we have already landed, entered the Thames somewhere and are now storming Westminster Abbey….? We are moving to combat readiness, said Starmer.
'But considering how he boxes, I'm afraid to even imagine his combat readiness….' Solovyov claimed - offering no evidence - it was the British who had staged clandestine undercover operations against Russia.
'Actually, the attack on Russia's cyber security system was carried out by the British,' he said. 'Then, let me remind you that the water threat [to Russia] came from the British, when they were trying to figure out who Crimea belonged to.
'British reconnaissance aircraft are flying through our airspace.' Solovyov - decorated by Putin for his work as a propagandist - said: 'Most importantly, I would like to say something separately to Starmer.'

Then he said, in English: 'Scottish people, you have to fight for your independence.' Reverting to Russian, he told viewers across his country's 11 time zones: 'Scottish brothers, you must fight for your independence. Right?
'These English colonisers have no business on Scottish soil. And when your traitors end up in London and take up positions, chase them away.
'Starmer, you are not Scottish! You are just cattle.' Another propagandist - academic Dr Andrey Sidorov - said the Welsh should break free, too.

'The main thing is to remember that with a little bit of Poseidon [high speed underwater nuclear drone], this problem doesn't exist in principle,' said Solovyov. He frequently advocates using the untested Russian Poseidon unmanned submarine to sink Britain under a tidal wave.
Political scientist Dmitry Evstafiev told viewers: 'Back to Starmer - there he is, standing there, with workers behind him, or rather, hired extras pretending to be workers. Well, there are a couple of real workers there, apparently.

'But they understand that if the plan for direct military confrontation with Russia, which he is talking about, is implemented, they will all be dead. Quickly and painfully, because death from radiation is not the best kind of death.
'Well, that is, if you die immediately, if you are at the epicentre, then it's okay. But if you die slowly, well, it's not like in some horror movie.
'It's much worse than that. But there was one person there who clearly understood this, and right behind him was a girl whose face showed a whole range of emotions.
'She was a very pretty girl, and as this man [Starmer] spoke, her face changed quite dramatically. So, in principle, Britain is not hopeless.
'There are a number of people there who understand what Britain…[faces in a war].' Solovyov said Starmer 'has never served in the army - he had no basic military training at school.'

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