A Russian MP and close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned of a missile strike against a European capital, speaking to a Kremlin-backed Russian TV station, and named the city he believes will be Moscow's first target if World War III breaks out.
Invasion of the Baltic
Andrei Guruliov, former deputy commander of Russia's southern military region, made the comment during a discussion about Lithuania's blockade of the neighboring Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, according to newsweek.com.
Moscow threatened to retaliate after Vilnius imposed sanctions on goods embargoed from passing through and entering Russia's Baltic Sea territory.
The Russian MP raised the prospect of an invasion of the Baltic Sea in the context of a strategy to restore the Lithuanian capital Vilnius to its former identity as Vilnius and the Estonian capital Tallinn to its Tsarist identity as Reval.
Both Estonia and Lithuania are NATO countries and any invasion by Russia would trigger Article 5, potentially triggering a World War III, which Guruliov said the West would not have "the stomach" for.
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The city to be hit first
"Nobody will care if they are American or British, we would see them all as NATO," he said, adding that Russia would "limit the entire missile defense system" and that "we will certainly not start from Warsaw, Paris or Berlin."
"The first to be hit will be London. Without a doubt the threat to the world comes from the Anglo-Saxons," he said, warning that Russia would target critical key points that would cut off power to Europe."
The U.S. would then have to tell Western Europe to keep fighting "in the cold without food and electricity," he added.
Participants on Russian state TV channels have made repeated threats of missile strikes against capital cities of European countries that support Ukraine in its war with Vladimir Putin's troops.
Escalation scenario
This escalation scenario has become popular after Russia's successful test of the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) by Russia, which TV guests pointed out could reach London in two minutes (photo, above, from EPA/EFE).
A direct confrontation between Moscow and NATO in the Ukraine war are often talking points.
Guruliov is now a deputy in the Russian parliament of the ruling United Russia party. He reportedly has close ties to Vladimir Putin and was one of the Duma deputies who were sanctioned by the US Treasury Department a month after Russia invaded Ukraine.
He has previously expressed inflammatory views, telling another Kremlin propaganda channel, Russia-1, this month that Russia was ready for a "great colossal war".
Source: in.gr
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