Vladimir Putin's close ally has sent a warning to London that the city should be bombed first if World War Three broke out. Andrey Gurulyov, a member of Russia's defence committee, says "no one will care" which country from the West it is, "we will see them all as NATO".
Speaking on Russian state TV, he warned: "The first to be hit will be London. It’s crystal clear that the threat to the world comes from the Anglo-Saxons." He vowed that the West would be "cut off" with all power supplies "destroyed", reports The Express.
Gurulyov, a former military commander and member of the pro-Putin United Russia party, said: “We’ll destroy the entire group of enemy’s space satellites during the first air operation. No one will care if they are American or British, we would see them all as NATO.
“Second, we’ll mitigate the entire system of anti-missile defence, everywhere and 100 per cent. Third, we certainly won’t start from Warsaw, Paris or Berlin. The first to be hit will be London. It’s crystal clear that the threat to the world comes from the Anglo-Saxons.”
Gurulyov went on to say western Europe would be "cut off from power supplies," which he said would also be destroyed, and "immobilised".
“In the third stage, I shall see what the USA will tell Western Europe on continuing their fight in the cold, without food and electricity,” he continued. “I wonder how they (the US) will manage to stay aside.”
“This is the rough plan, and I deliberately leave out certain moments because they are not to be discussed on TV.”
Meanwhile, Russian forces are trying to block a city in eastern Ukraine, the region’s governor said on Saturday, after their relentless assault on a nearby city forced Ukrainian troops to begin withdrawal after weeks of intense fighting. Russia also launched missile attacks on areas far from the heart of the eastern battles.
Serhiy Haidai, governor of the Luhansk region, said on Facebook that Russian forces are attempting to blockade the city of Lysychansk from the south. That city lies next to Sievierodonetsk, which has endured relentless assault and house-to-house fighting for weeks.
After Mr Haidai said on Friday that Ukrainian forces had begun retreating from Sievierodonetsk, military analyst Oleg Zhdanov said some of the troops were heading for Lysychansk. But Russian moves to cut off Lysychansk will give those retreating troops little respite.
Russian bombardment has reduced most of Sievierodonetsk to rubble and cut its population from 100,0000 to 10,000. Some Ukrainian troops are holed up in the huge Azot chemical factory on the city’s edge, along with about 500 civilians.
