"One Sarmat launch and Great Britain is wiped out"

"One Sarmat launch and Great Britain is wiped out"

Vladimir Solovyov, a well-known Russian journalist considered Putin's "belly fighter", threatened Britain today while talking to the head of the Russian Space Agency about the new, powerful RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile, which Russia plans to deploy to its armed forces by autumn, Daily Mail reports.

"It turns out that deployment of a single Sarmat means Great Britain wiped out," Solovyov boasted, saying that Great Britain had become "extremely rude" - apparently referring to the open support for Ukraine since the beginning of the invasion on February 24.

Soloviev's threat comes just two days after Putin determined that the Federal Security Service (FSB) had prevented his assassination attempt and that members of a "Nazi gang" receiving orders from Kyiv had been detained.

Ukraine's State Security Service (SBU) on Monday denied having any plans to assassinate regime journalist Vladimir Solovyov.

Sarmat, or "Satan 2" as the West called it, can carry 10 or more nuclear warheads and lures and target thousands of miles away in the United States or Europe. Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Roscosmos space agency, said he would make 46 such missiles, and the first would be deployed in the second half of the year in the Krasnoyarsk Territory in Siberia, about 3.000 kilometers east of Moscow.

"Everything is going according to plan," Rogozin said. Last week, Putin oversaw the first successful test of Sarmatia, which is a new addition to Russia's nuclear arsenal.

"This is a significant event in the development of advanced weapons of the Russian army. It is capable of overcoming all modern means of missile defense. There are no similar ones in the world and there will not be any for a long time," Putin said last Wednesday.

Solovyov's statement is not the first time that Russia has threatened nuclear weapons since the beginning of the military operation on Ukraine, nor is it the first threat to Great Britain. On Monday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned that "NATO is actually at war with Russia" and that the threat of nuclear war is "serious and real."

Asked about the importance of avoiding World War III and whether the current situation is comparable to the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, Lavrov said: "The risks are now significant."

"I would not like to artificially increase those risks. Many would like that. The danger is serious, real. And we must not underestimate it." Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, then threatened to attack NATO member countries that supply weapons to Ukraine, among which Britain has a leading role.

Russia can target military targets on the territory of those NATO member states that send weapons to the regime in Kyiv for "disrupting military logistics", she said.