A senior Russian official has shared a map of dozens of British defence and industrial sites on state television, suggesting they could be targeted in missile strikes. Dmitry Rogozin, a senator and war combatant, warned that the UK would become 'dangerous' and urged Russians not to send their children to the country for school.
The map, taken from a UK government policy paper titled 'Defence Industrial Strategy 2025: Making Defence an Engine for Growth', highlights 23 defence-related sites across all four nations of the UK. Rogozin's comments came in response to former British defence secretary Ben Wallace's remarks about making Crimea uninhabitable.
Vladimir Solovyov, a Kremlin propagandist, threatened to unleash Russia's Poseidon underwater nuclear drone on Britain, claiming 'your country doesn't even exist'. Days earlier, Russian state television also threatened to blow up the SS Richard Montgomery, a Second World War shipwreck in the Thames estuary containing 1,400 tonnes of explosives, as 'revenge' for alleged British involvement in Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil refineries.
An explosion of the wreck could trigger a tsunami in the Thames, sending a '1,000ft wide column of water, mud, metal and munitions almost 10,000ft into the air' and generating waves up to 16ft high that could engulf coastal Essex and the Isle of Sheppey.
