A senior Russian official shared dozens of British defence and industrial sites on television, before suggesting Vladimir Putin could target them in missile strikes.
Dmitry Rogozin – a senator and war combatant- threatened that the UK would become ‘dangerous’ and urged Russians not to send their children to the country for school.
It comes as he and Putin’s mouthpiece, Vladimir Solovyov, both slammed former British defence secretary Ben Wallace after he called out Russia for ‘making Crimea uninhabitable and unviable’.
Rogozin responded by posting a map highlighting UK defence-related sites as targets.
He added: ‘Former British Defence Minister Ben Wallace on what Kyiv and its NATO allies should do to end the military actions: ‘We must help Ukraine acquire long-range capabilities to make Crimea uninhabitable. We need to strangle Crimea.
‘And my advice to our oligarchs: do not send your children to study in England! It is deadly dangerous.’
The 23 defence sites – both military and industrial across all four nations of the UK – are shown on a map taken from the UK government’s policy paper ‘Defence Industrial Strategy 2025: Making Defence an Engine for Growth’.
TV propagandist Solovyov – whose TV rants are scripted by the Kremlin, added: ‘The idiots will get what’s coming to them, they’ll just get what’s coming to them.’
Solovyov threatened to unleash Russia’s Poseidon underwater nuclear drone on Britain, claiming ‘your country doesn’t even exist’.
Days ago, Russian state television also threatened to blow up a Second World War shipwreck packed with 1,400 tonnes of explosives in the Thames estuary.
A clandestine strike by Russian special forces would be ‘revenge’ for alleged British involvement in Ukraine’s successful operation to disable and destroy dozens of Kremlin oil refineries, they claimed.
The US Liberty ship SS Richard Montgomery grounded on a sandbank east of the Isle of Grain in 1944.
Some 1,400 tonnes remain on the wreck, the masts of which are visible in the estuary.
The ship’s masts are still visible above the waterline despite plans to remove them to avoid triggering an explosion of the 1,400tonnes of explosives on board.
It’s feared an explosion could trigger a tsunami in the Thames, hurling a ‘1,000ft wide column of water, mud, metal and munitions almost 10,000ft into the air – risking wildlife and the lives of many people’.
Waves up to 16ft high could engulf coastal Essex and the Isle of Sheppey.
