Putin's favourite newspaper preparing Russians for NUCLEAR WAR in chillingly short time frame: ‘Nowhere we can't hit'

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RUSSIAN media is reportedly preparing its citizens for a potential nuclear war with the West in the near future.
Several media outlets in
Moscow
- part of
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Plans for dealing with a nuclear attack on London have been obtained by The Sun
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A Russian Yars intercontinental ballistic missile launches from the Plesetsk military launchpad in northwestern Russia
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US soldiers manually load an AIM-120 AMRAAM Missile onto an FA-18 Hornet on the flight deck of USS Harry S. Truman
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Komsomolskaya Pravda (KP) newspaper uses Russian 'experts' to explain how such a conflict could happen - ramping up the nuclear war rhetoric.
Readers are told that Britain and Europe want to engage in a conflict with the Russian empire.
This could happen by the end of the decade when "European forces reach full operational readiness", the newspaper reports.
It comes after a senior US
army
general threatened to launch a
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The newspaper argues multiple Western politicians and military figures have threatened war.
And it threatens to launch an attack on the West - claiming "there is no place in
Europe
[Russia] cannot hit".
Andrei Klintsevich, head of the Centre for the Study of Military and Political Conflicts, told the newspaper: "They need a big war to dismember
Russia
into small independent states and get free access to our resources."
Lintsevich accused the West of mobilising its military-industrial complex,
mining
borders, and building defences.
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The aim is to provoke Russia, accuse Moscow of 'aggression', and launch direct confrontation, he told the paper.
He demanded that
Russia
now stage a nuclear weapons test in the Arctic - the first since the end of the Cold War - to deter the West.
Independent
news
outlet Agentsvo said the report in KP - said to be Putin's favourite newspaper - was 'intended to prepare Russian public
opinion
for a potential war with Nato'.
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'Russia would have to respond — not only diplomatically. Missile
strikes
would be inevitable, as securing a land corridor through Odesa and Mykolaiv would require considerable time and force,' explained the newspaper.
General Christopher Donahue, commander of the
United States
Army Europe and Africa, said
Nato
could capture Kaliningrad -
Wedged between Poland and Lithuania, the region of Kaliningrad is heavily militarised by the Russians.
It is cut off from the rest of Putin's empire, but could be used by the tyrant to launch an attack on Europe.
Using the strategic exclave, the Russians could also take over the Suwalki Gap - a hard-to-defend strip of land less than 60 miles wide that links the rest of the Nato countries to the Baltic nations.
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Vladimir Putin and his cronies have threatened to nuke the West several times
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General Christopher Donahue, commander of the United States Army Europe and Africa
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Donahue had argued that Nato could destroy the heavily militarised Kaliningrad 'in a timeframe that is unheard of and faster than we've ever been able to do' in the event of Russian threats against allied states.
'Donahue's words confirm that they are preparing to seize Kaliningrad,' said Klintsevich.
'The Swedish island of Gotland is already being turned into a powerful warship — with air defence systems, anti-ship missiles, and more being deployed there. Estonia and
Finland
are forming a joint group.'
He warned Russians: 'Under a made-up pretext, they'll block Kaliningrad's air and sea routes.
'Our protests and ultimatums will be ignored, forcing our troops to fight their way through the Suwałki Gap [a 60-mile wide strip of land connecting NATO states Lithuania and
Poland
, flanked by Russia - Kaliningrad - and its ally Belarus].
'In such a case, Europe would launch a ground operation in Kaliningrad using large numbers of rockets, artillery, and
drones
,' said the newspaper.
'The Alliance believes that occupying Kaliningrad would cut Russia off from the Baltic once and for all,' said military expert Alexander Zimovsky.
Another flashpoint starting a new war in Europe could be ex-Soviet state
Moldova
, says KP.
Russia's foreign intelligence service SVR has warned that Nato 'is rapidly turning Moldova into a military staging ground.
Another
trigger point
for World War Three could be the north, claimed Sergey Sudakov, of the Russian Academy of Military Sciences.
The most likely threat is Finland, which recently joined NATO.
They have 'solid military infrastructure, which the alliance could use for attacks on St Petersburg, Karelia, and Murmansk,' said Zimovsky.
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Russia's Burevestnik cruise missile, known as Skyfall, in action during a test launch
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A satellite image which shows five Russian nuclear warhead storage bunkers (right) as well as launch positions, according to researchers
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Russian military expert Andrei Klintsevich
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KP stressed: 'While a Kaliningrad conflict might be settled, an assault on St Petersburg would risk triggering World War Three.'
The
Kremlin
has ramped up its nuclear rhetoric after the threats from the US commander - with Putin's henchmen accusing the US of "unleashing World War Three".
Terrifying
The chilling documents lay bare the grim reality of how Londoners would face
The tirade from Moscow comes as the Kremlin pushes on with its war against
Ukraine
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Fears new Russia-Ukraine talks are already doomed to fail
By
, Foreign Editor
RUSSIA and Ukraine held peace talks in Istanbul today following Donald Trump's stern warning to warmonger Vladimir Putin.
Any hopes for a breakthrough continue to appear bleak as Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov warned the enemies remained "diametrically opposed".
And fears still linger that Putin may - yet again - make impossible demands and play for time while continuing his 'meatgrinder' assaults and attacks on civilians.
Trump has given the
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced a new round of negotiations will take place in Turkey involving envoys from both sides.
Zelensky said he had authorised his security council chief Rustem Umerov to stage the third crucial meeting following failed attempts at peace in May and June.
He said discussions would centre on 'preparations for a prisoner exchange and another meeting in Turkey with the Russian side".
A senior Ukrainian source said talks could also begin working towards a possible historic meeting between Zelensky and Putin.
But Kremlin spokesman Peskov downplayed the likelihood of reaching any concrete outcome anytime soon.
Peskov said: "A lot of diplomatic work lies ahead."
Last week, US president Trump vented his frustration with Putin, declaring he was
He imposed a
Instead of agreeing, a snarling Putin declined and ramped up his ground and aerial offensives across Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Trump agreed to sell defence systems to Ukraine and
It comes after ex-Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said that
Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, raged that Nato and the West are effectively already at war with Russia as he pushed the Kremlin's view that his country is the victim.
That's despite it being
Medvedev accused the US and Europe of an attempt to 'destroy' Russia which is 'hated by the West', he claimed.
Diplomats say his remarks give an indication of the thinking among some within the Moscow political elite.
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An explosion of a drone lights up the sky over Kyiv during a Russian drone and missile strike
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Last week, US President Trump vented his frustration with Putin, declaring he was 'disappointed' but 'not done' with the Russian tyrant
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