“Just one launch, Boris, and England is gone.”

Ground-based intercontinental ballistic missile launched from the Plesetsk facility in northwestern Russia during a military exercise in December 2020. Associated Press

• A Russian propagandist has shown a simulation of how the United Kingdom can meet its end with a nuclear strike.

• “Just one shot, Boris, and England is gone … Why play with us?” He told a state broadcast.

• The simulation involved a nuclear attack carried out by air or sea.

A Russian propagandist has presented on state television a simulation of a hypothetical nuclear strike that would destroy the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Dmitry Kiselyov, a propaganda figure linked to Russian President Vladimir Putin, was seen on the May 1 News of the World program, which tells how the United Kingdom could be destroyed by a nuclear strike, either by air or by air. the sea.

“Just one launch, Boris, and Britain is gone,” Kiselyov said during a computer-generated simulation, targeting British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. “Once and for all. Why play with us?

“In fact, they seem to be raging in the British Isles. Why threaten endless Russia with nuclear weapons when you are on an island that, you know, is so small? ”Kiselyov said. He added that “just one Sarmat rocket will be enough to sink it once and for all.”

Another way to “put England on the seabed” would be to use Russia’s Poseidon submarine drone, Kiselyov said.

“It is approaching the target at a depth of one kilometer at 200 kilometers per hour. There is no way to stop this underwater drone. The warhead on it is up to 100 megatons,” he said.

Kiselyov then said that the “explosion of this thermonuclear torpedo” off the coast of the United Kingdom would raise a tsunami to a height of 500 meters.

“Such a squall is also a carrier of extreme doses of radiation,” he said. At the same time, the simulation showed a green “wave” representing the washing of radioactive material on a map of the United Kingdom and Ireland.

“Passing over the British Isles will turn what may remain of them into a radioactive desert, unfit for nothing for a long time,” Kiselyov said.

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John Everard, the former UK ambassador to Belarus, told RTE he did not believe Russia had weapons that could destroy the UK and Ireland, according to a Russian television chart.

“I would urge everyone to just keep calm. In any case, if you feel strongly about it, clarify your things to the Russians. But can we remember that this is just a TV model, “Everard told the publication.

“The Russians do not have this weapon. I will say this again, they do not have this weapon,” he added for RTE.

Johnson met with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky in Kyiv in April and promised that the United Kingdom would send armored vehicles and anti-ship missiles to help it fight the Russians. In the same month, Johnson also said that some Ukrainian troops were being trained in the United Kingdom to use these armored vehicles.

Last week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the possibility of a nuclear conflict over the war in Ukraine was “serious” and “real”. In 2018, Putin also threatened to drop nuclear weapons if the country was attacked.

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