The UK can be bombed back to the Stone Age in just 10 minutes with an attack by Vladimir Putin ’s hypersonic missiles, Russian state TV has said.
Russia ’s new Zircon, or Tsirkon, weapons system should be deployed to wipe out 50 or 60 power stations, plunging the country into permanent darkness.
It comes amid fury in Russia over what is seen as Britain leading the West in providing weapons to Ukraine in a “proxy war” against Putin.
The latest Kremlin-controlled media threat to Britain was made on a “propaganda” show with anchor Vladimir Solovyov, also known as Putin’s Voice.
It also featured Moscow-born Israeli pundit Yaakov Kedmi who once described Stalin as "the last statesman to take care of his country”.
Kedmi said: "One, or one and a half launches from a multi-purpose submarine with Zircons will be enough.
"About 50 or 60 of Britain’s power stations will be gone in 10 minutes.
"And all of Britain will be back to the Stone Age… Within 10 minutes, nothing else is needed…
"It’ll be back to the Stone Age in 10 minutes."
In his new outburst on Rossiya 1 channel, Kedmi claimed that use of the big beast Satan-2 would be "too good" for Britain.
Instead, he advocated a submarine missile salvo with Tsirkon missiles.
A politician Aleksey Zhuravlyov and another TV propagandist Dmitry Kiselyov had earlier advocated striking Britain with Satan-2, known to the Russians as Sarmat.
Close Putin ally Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Roscosmos, the Russian Space Agency, has also warned that NATO countries can be destroyed within half an hour in a nuclear attack.
But Kedmi told viewers: “It’s overkill. Sarmat [Satan-2] is too good, and too big, for Great Britain.
“There is no need to use [such a big weapon] for Britain at all.”
The UK could be devastated without an atomic attack, he said, before advocating the use of Zircon which is designed as capable of nuclear strikes.
Despite his desire to destroy Britain, Kedmi, a regular on Russian state TV political talk shows, sent his youngest son to the London Business School.
Zvezda TV - a channel run by Putin’s defence ministry - has said Zircon’s speed “is so high that it prevents the opponent's air defence system from detecting its impact in time.
“In fact, its launch will be known only after the target has been hit.”
Putin said in December after a “successful” test: “Zircon are our newest missiles fired from the sea at sea targets, and land targets.
“The tests were carried out successfully, flawlessly.
“This is a big event for our country, a significant step in improving Russia’s security, in increasing (our) defence capability.”
Satan-2 - due for deployment this year - is a hypersonic 208-ton ’Satan-2’ intercontinental ballistic missile capable of striking targets at 15,880mph.
