Russian state TV host Vladimir Solovyov has warned that Russia can strike any part of Europe without fear of US retaliation, in a chilling threat directed at the UK and its neighbours. Speaking on his programme 'The Evening With Vladimir Solovyov', he claimed that Russia had "turned Kyiv into a dead city" and threatened to "finish it off".
Solovyov suggested that Donald Trump's recent comments about taking control of Greenland from Denmark indicated a possible Russia-US alliance. He said, "I can't rule out an alliance between Russia and the US. We will be fighting them [Europe] very differently... They no longer have an American nuclear umbrella." According to Solovyov, the US would not defend European allies because they are not part of America.
The propagandist also claimed that the Coalition of the Willing, a group of 34 countries supporting Ukraine, would soon be abandoned by the United States. He argued that Trump's stance on Greenland demonstrated that America is not willing to protect its allies, undermining the coalition's main condition of US air defence.
The broadcast follows a period of tension among NATO allies after Trump stated at Davos that the US needed Greenland for national security. Although Trump later announced he would not use military force to acquire the territory, the remarks have raised questions about the future of the alliance.
