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A Russian lawmaker has become the latest guest on Kremlin-backed television to warn of a missile attack on a European capital, naming the city he thinks should be Moscow’s first target should the Third World War break out. World War.
Andrey Gurulyov, a former deputy commander of Russia’s southern military district, made the comment during a discussion on Lithuania’s blockade of the neighboring Russian enclave of Kaliningrad. Moscow has threatened to retaliate after Vilnius imposed sanctions on embargoed goods transiting and entering Russian Baltic Sea territory.
Gurulyov raised the possibility of invading the Baltic in his strategy, which included reverting the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, to its former name as Vilno, 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 causing a Third World War, for which Gurulyov said the West would have no stomach.
“We will destroy the entire group of enemy space satellites during the first aerial operation,” he told the Vremya Pakazhet (Time will tell) program last Wednesday. “Nobody will care if they are American or British, we would see them all as NATO,” he said, adding that Russia would then “mitigate the entire missile defense system.”
“The first to be attacked will be London. Without a doubt, the threat to the world comes from the Anglo-Saxons»he warned while warning that Russia would attack critically important sites that would cut off electricity supplies to Europe.
London is “first to be hit” if WW3 starts, says Andrey Gurulyov, Putin’s close political ally.
But what about the families of Russian politicians and oligarchs who live in #London?
Video – @DailyMirrorpic.twitter.com/89F7ch8gAJ— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) June 24, 2022
A snippet of the comments was shared by Ukraine’s internal affairs adviser Anton Gerashchenko, who wrote: “London is ‘first to be hit’ if World War 3 starts, says Andrey Gurulyov, a close political ally of Putin. But what about the families of Russian politicians and oligarchs living in #London?
Gurulyov is now a deputy in the Russian parliament in the ruling United Russia party. He has close ties to Vladimir Putin and was one of the Duma deputies sanctioned by the US Treasury a month after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. He has expressed inflammatory views before, telling another Kremlin propaganda channel Russia-1 this month that Russia was ready for a “great colossal war.”
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