Russia has made new threats to use its Satan-2 hypersonic nuclear missile to hit Britain in just 200 seconds.
Finland, which is due to join NATO, will be completely destroyed in just ten seconds, said Alexei Zhuravlyov, deputy chairman of the Russian parliament’s defense committee.
His threats come as senior Russian officials appear frustrated by Vladimir Putin’s lack of military progress in Ukraine and outraged by Western unity against them, according to The Mirror.
Zhuravlyov, 59, said in an interview: “If Finland wants to join this bloc, then our goal is absolutely legitimate – to question the existence of this country. This is logical.
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“If the United States is threatening our country, that’s good: here’s the sarma [known in the West as Satan-2] for you and there will be nuclear ashes from you if you think Russia should not exist.
“And Finland says it’s one with the United States. Well, get in line.
“Finns in general should be grateful to Russia for their statehood, for the fact that Finland exists as a state.
Asked if Russia would deploy nuclear weapons on its border with Finland, he said: “For what? We don’t need it.
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“We can strike with a Sarmatian [known in the West as Satan-2] from Siberia and even to the United Kingdom.
“And if we strike from Kaliningrad … the time to reach hypersound is 200 seconds – so go ahead, boys.
“At the Finnish border, we will not have strategic weapons, but Kinzhal-class weapons that will reach Finland in 20 seconds or even 10 seconds.
He said Russia would massively strengthen its military forces on its western flank.
“It’s natural. If so far we had not foreseen possible military action by Finland, now it is entirely possible.
“And that must be taken into account, no doubt.”
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He claims that Finland was provoked to join NATO by the United States and Britain.
“Finns have nothing to share with us. They get more than 90 percent of the gas, wood and many more of us.
“Who needs a fight first?” The Finns? They are not afraid of being attacked by Russia.
“Of course, sooner or later the Americans will force them to do so.
“Just as they forced Ukraine to do so, they are trying to make Poland and Romania. And as practice shows, they succeed.
“It is impossible to say that Finland will join NATO and treat us as before – this will not happen. The Americans will incite them to provocations.
“It simply came to our notice then. But that can’t go on forever. “
Reflecting the views of Vladimir Putin’s hardliners, he said: “The United States will do everything possible to make World War III happen.
“It simply came to our notice then.
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“They will try not to lead to nuclear strikes, but they will try to involve the whole of Europe in a conflict with Russia, to inflame the situation in Asia.” [and] set fire to as many countries as possible.
“For them, this will be a very good way out of the internal economic crisis.
“They will be able to attribute all their problems to the war, as they did during the First World War and the Second World War.
“They came out of the crisis only because of the war in Europe. But there is a great danger: who guarantees that nuclear missiles will not fly? I do not guarantee that. “
Asked by Ura if Russia could be the first to strike with nuclear weapons, he replied: “Of course.”
Asked under what conditions, he replied that this would happen if Russia’s existence was threatened.
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Finland and Sweden are now “joining an Alliance that wants to destroy Russia.” That’s why we want to destroy them in return. “
Asked about the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, he said Russia would crush them when needed.
“We are definitely not afraid of these peanuts,” he said.
“They suck like stink bugs. But they will have to be crushed when needed. Now the bug is small and smells.
“They would make territorial claims against us, as Estonia wanted to do. Well, try it. They follow exactly the same path as Ukraine. Let’s see where it takes them. “
He argues that St. Petersburg, Putin’s birthplace, could be NATO’s first target in a war with Russia.
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“This is the main goal [in this direction]. That is beyond doubt, “he said.
“It simply came to our notice then. Today we are conducting a special operation, saving every life of the civilian population, and of the Ukrainian Nazis, on the contrary, because these are not their people and for them the more victims, the better.
“If the Finns want to destroy a certain part of our population, if they strike at St. Petersburg, it threatens to destroy the whole of Finland as a state. So how else?
“How can a normal person perceive this: you have destroyed a little – we have a little? Nope. It will not happen.”
Russia’s new hypersonic “big beast” Sarmat is a 208-ton intercontinental ballistic missile at 15,880 miles per hour.
Putin said the weapon was “unstoppable” by the West and “has no analogues … in the world for a long time to come.”
It is to be deployed this year.
Recently, 68-year-old TV presenter Dmitry Kiselyov told his Russian television audience that Britain should be flooded twice with Putin’s most advanced nuclear weapons.
He suggested using Satan-2 to erase England from the map.
Russia must then “sink Britain into the depths of the sea” with its Poseidon submarine robotic drone, causing a tsunami of 1,640 feet.
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warned this week of the risk of nuclear war.
The Dagger hypersonic missile was used with conventional warheads in the war in Ukraine – but it also has nuclear capability.
This comes when Russia urged its people not to travel to Britain and promised to block UK citizens who want to enter its country.
Moscow accuses Britain of acting as a Western coordinator and cheerleader in NATO’s harsh response to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
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