A senior Putin military expert has threatened both Britain and America with full-scale nuclear strikes amid Russian claims that Ukraine is poised to release a “dirty bomb”.
Colonel Igor Korotchenko, editor-in-chief of Russia ’s National Defence magazine, told state TV that Vladimir Putin should launch Topol-M attacks on military targets in the two Western countries.
Korotchenko claimed such strikes would be retaliatory for what he portrayed as expected NATO action.
Russian experts are reacting to claims of a dirty bomb in a supposed false flag to be blamed on Moscow, claiming the West’s hand is behind such a scheme.
Ukraine and the West suspect Putin’s forces are planning a dirty bomb attack intending to blame Kyiv and NATO.
“If NATO goes to war with Russia, we will not be able to limit ourselves to appealing to international law….to the UN charter,” said hardliner Korotchenko in Kremlin-controlled Rossiya-1.
Nor would persuasion or intimidation halt the West, he claimed.
“There is only one way," he said. “They [the West] must know that if they try to fight with Russia in Ukraine or on our territory, there will be only one answer.
“Topol-M - with a [nuclear] warhead…on a military facility in the UK and simultaneously in the US, not on cities.”
This should be with high-capacity mono-block warheads to minimise detection.
“And then we will enter negotiations or whatever happens,” he said.
“This is exactly what we have to prepare for, not to threaten. But to be ready with an immediate quick response without any hesitation.”
Moscow is scaring its own people with claims the West is threatening nuclear attacks.
On another propaganda show on Channel One, Korotchenko spooked viewers that Ukraine could acquire from the UK or US a "low-yield backpack-type nuclear warhead”.
A “terrorist” could “put this on his shoulders, take somewhere and blow up”, he said.
Or Ukraine could independently build its own dirty bomb, said the Russian expert.
"The technology is very simple", he claimed, telling viewers that Ukraine possessed "highly radioactive materials".
Then Kyiv would accuse Putin of striking the country with a tactical nuclear weapon which "supposedly did not work” properly and “was rusty”.
Defence analyst Mikhail Khodaryonok offered a rare voice of dissent that the UK might be involved in a dirty bomb.
"London is, of course, unlikely to pass on any nuclear technologies to a third party,” he said. “I think that this can largely be ruled out.”
Yet Ukraine could do this independently.
