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Will Stewart & Ryan Fahey

Russian state TV in chilling threat as it urges British Embassy address to be changed

Vladimir Putin propagandists have chillingly called for the address of the British Embassy in Moscow to be changed to ‘ Sarmat Square’ - the Russian name for the tyrant's flagship nuke.

This was coupled with a new threat on Rossiya-1 state TV to sink Britain in a giant nuclear strike.

The location of the US Embassy in Moscow has already been renamed Donetsk People’s Republic Square as Russia hits back at Western military support for Ukraine.

And the German mission’s address is to be altered to Luhansk People’s Republic Square, say reports.

Russian state TV have debated how best to embarrass the British by renaming the location of the UK embassy, torn between calling it in honour of the Sarmat missile - due to be deployed by the end of this year, according to Putin - or IRA terrorists.

The Western name for the missile is Satan-2.

Its address overlooking the Moscow River is now Smolenskaya Embankment, 10.

Husband and wife TV anchors Yevgeny Popov and Olga Skabeyeva heard a call from the audience for the address in future to be known as Sarmat Square after Putin’s 208-ton, Satan-2 hypersonic missile capable of obliterating targets at 15,880mph.

"Sarmat is a good name,” said Skabeyeva, known as Putin’s TV ‘Iron Doll’.

Britain had its share of responsibility for the war against Ukraine continuing for so long, she told viewers.

Popov, also a Putin-loyalist MP, suggested the Ukrainian nickname for the British prime minister ‘Boris Johnsonyuk’ as a new street or square name .

But nationalist MP Aleksey Zhuravlyov replied: “Sarmat is a good name indeed.”

Skabeyeva retorted: “They say we can destroy them (the UK) twice with one Sarmat?”

UK Embassy in Moscow (WikiMedia/east2west news)

Zhuravlyov, deputy chairman of the Russian parliament’s defence committee, told her: “Oh yes, twice with one, without a doubt.

“There will be no islands whatsoever. Absolutely! From just one Sarmat.”

The TV pundits found this amusing.

He said: “Actually everyone in England knows that this street [by the UK Embassy] should be named after the Irish Republican Army - I think they would all enjoy it.”

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