Russia will use a Poseidon underwater missile to wipe Britain off the map with a 1,000ft-high radioactive tsunami if NATO troops put boots on the ground in Ukraine, Putin’s propagandists claim
- Yevgeny Buzhinsky called for attacks on UK with Poseidon underwater missile
- He said Britain ‘will definitely not exist’ if Russia unleashed the nuclear missile
Russian state media has urged Vladimir Putin to use his underwater nuclear missile to wipe Britain off the map with a 1,000ft-high radioactive tsunami if NATO troops put boots on the ground in Ukraine.
Retired Russian general Yevgeny Buzhinsky called for attacks on Britain with a Poseidon underwater missile that he said would trigger a 1,000ft radioactive tidal wave.
Lt-Gen Buzhinsky, chairman of the Russian Centre for Policy Research, said Britain ‘will definitely not exist’ if Russia unleashed the wrath of the nuclear missile.
Buzhinsky also threatened the UK with an attack by the 14-storey high Sarmat 2, Russia’s largest nuclear missile, which he claimed would destroy the country.
Vladimir Solovyov, known as ‘Putin’s voice’, smirked as he said that if the Poseidon underwater drone hit Britain, there would be a ‘tsunami’.
Retired Russian general Yevgeny Buzhinsky called for attacks on Britain with a Poseidon underwater missile (pictured) that he said would trigger a 1,000ft radioactive tidal wave
Lt-Gen Buzhinsky (pictured), chairman of the Russian Centre for Policy Research, said Britain ‘will definitely not exist’ if Russia unleashed the wrath of the nuclear missile
Vladimir Solovyov, known as ‘ Putin ‘s voice’, smirked as he said that if the Poseidon underwater drone hit Britain, there would be a ‘tsunami’
The warnings were made as Putin’s propagandists discussed Russia’s military options after its failure to make meaningful headway in Ukraine.
What is Russia’s nuclear armed Poseidon torpedo?
Poseidon is a Russian nuclear weapon currently in development that is a blend of torpedo and drone.
Moscow claims it is unstoppable by current nuclear defences, and could be used to destroy coastal cities or blow up aircraft carriers and their battle groups.
Poseidon is made up of a 65ft tube that is almost 6ft in diameter which can be carried by specially adapted submarines and launched like a torpedo.
Once launched, it acts like a drone and can be remotely guided to its target.
The tube is though to contain a nuclear reactor theoretically giving the drone an unlimited range if traveling on a pre-set course to its target.
In order for an operator to control the drone, it would have to stay within range of some kind of control tower.
Poseidon is thought to be capable of traveling up to 115mph which would give it the ability to out-run any torpedos that might be used to destroy it.
It is also thought to be able to dive to 1km, which would also put it out of range of current torpedos.
While the exact payload is unknown, the size of the nuclear warhead seen in leaked designs suggests it could have a yield of up to 100 megatons.
That would make Poseidon roughly twice as powerful as the Tsar Bomba – the largest nuke ever created – which obliterated everything within a 60mile radius when it was tested in 1961, shattering the windows of buildings up to 560miles away.
Buzhinsky also claimed on Russian state TV channel Rossiya 1 that the ‘unstoppable’ 6,670mph hypersonic missile Zircon was ‘about to be used in combat operations’ after testing.
‘Of course, there are such means as Poseidon, which has been tested,’ Buzhinsky said.
A smirking Solovyov responded: ‘I would like to see how Poseidon works, I would like to see Sarmat in action.’
‘Tsunami, tsunami, yes, tsunami,’ replied pro-war Buzhinsky. ‘[If NATO] sends troops, it will end up with [us using] Poseidon, of course, and a tsunami. And 300 metre [985ft] high waves.’
Solovyov interjected: ‘Great Britain will not exist then.’ Buzhinsky, 72, agreed and insisted: ‘Britain will definitely not exist.’
RT propaganda empire chief Margarita Simonyan added: ‘The UK will not be there.’ It would be drowned ‘straight away’, she said.
The propagandists’ remarks follow a pattern that has developed on Russian state media since the Ukraine war began of threatening Britain with nuclear holocaust.
The threats are believed to be the result of the UK’s staunch support for Ukraine, which became the first NATO country to announce it would send 14 next-generation battle tanks to the war-torn country in the form of Challenger 2 tanks.
Buzhinsky was angry that Putin’s missile bombardment of Ukraine had not gone far enough.
‘Of course, six missiles cannot make the tipping point,’ he said. There should better be 60 [missiles]. Or even better 600.’
Putin sees the Poseidon as a key to his ultimate military supremacy over the West, it has been reported.
Another propagandist Dmitry Kiselyov has previously threatened that the Poseidon ‘approaches the target at a one kilometre depth with the speed of 200 kilometres per hour [125mph].
‘There is no way to stop this underwater drone,’ he said on state TV last year. ‘It has a warhead with a capacity of up to 100 megatons. The explosion of this thermonuclear torpedo close to Britain’s shores will raise a giant wave, a tsunami.’
He said: ‘This tidal wave is also a carrier of extremely high doses of radiation.
‘Surging over Britain, it will turn what is probably left of them into radioactive desert. Permanently unusable for anything.’
Buzhinsky also threatened the UK with an attack by the 14-storey high Sarmat 2 (pictured during a test last year), Russia’s largest nuclear missile, which he claimed would destroy the country
It comes as Russia continues to suffer heavy losses on the front lines, which has forced Putin to desperately empty Russian museums of obsolete tanks to repurpose them for his flailing war effort.
Footage shows ageing Soviet-era T-62s being ‘modernised’ in a round-the-clock factory in Chita, Siberia.
The drive to retrofit the decades-old tanks highlights the desperation of Putin’s military machine – while Ukraine is being supplied with the most modern Western tanks.
On the battlefront, Ukrainian soldiers said on Monday they were repelling attacks near Kreminna, north of Bakhmut.
In a forest some 5 miles from the front, cannons boomed and explosions rumbled constantly in the distance.
‘Two or three weeks ago the fighting was at its peak but it has calmed down a bit,’ said Mykhailo Anest, a 35-year-old medic. ‘There is a lot of artillery and mortar fire.’
Trench warfare, described by both sides as a meat grinder, has claimed a huge toll in Bakhmut, in Donetsk, with both sides reporting hundreds of enemy troops had been killed.
Russia launched five missile attacks, 35 air strikes and 76 attacks with heavy rocket salvo systems over the past day, including on civilian infrastructure in the Sumy and Donetsk regions, Ukraine’s military said early on Wednesday.
A Ukrainian light artillery vehicle moves on the road in Chasiv Yar, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine on March 12
Ukrainian soldiers are seen at a mined area in Chasiv Yar, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine on March 12
Ukrainian forces repelled attacks on seven settlements in the Bakhmut front, it added.
Russia says taking Bakhmut would open a path to capture all of Donetsk, a central war aim. Ukraine, which has decided to defend Bakhmut rather than withdraw, says wearing out Russia’s military now will help its counter-offensive later.
But not every military analyst is convinced that defending Bakhmut is the best strategy for Ukraine.
Ukraine was suffering losses among reserves it intended to use for a later push against Russian forces, Ukrainian military analyst Oleh Zhdanov said in an interview. ‘We could lose here everything we wanted to use for those counter-offensives.’
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