Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday that Moscow would send Britain into the abyss with the “waves created by the latest weapons system” in response to the British government’s recent sanctions against Russian officials.
“The UK was, is and will be our eternal enemy”wrote Medvedev on the social network Telegram.
“Anyway, soon your brutal, disgustingly wet island will be thrown into the abyss of the sea by waves created by the latest Russian weapons system”he added.
The vice-president of the Security Council of Russia reacted to the sanctions imposed by the British government on the Russian authorities over the arrest this week of Russian-British journalist and politician Vladimir Kara-Murza.
Regarding the threats, Medvedev is said to be referring to the 200-ton nuclear missile known as Satan II, The Telegraph reported.
Russian head of state Vladimir Putin has already boasted that the missile, officially known as the Sarmat, will “pay attention to those who try to threaten Russia”.
Military analysts said it could reach London in less than 13 minutes if based in Russia’s far west.
The former Russian president (2008-2012) who already received the former president of the United States, Barack Obama, in Moscow, pointed out in his message that the United Kingdom had become so “obsolete” that he could not even remember the name remembered by Rishi Sunak.
The United Kingdom on Friday announced sanctions against five Russians accused of involvement in the poisoning and arrest of opponent Vladimir Kara-Murza, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Monday.
The sanctions target two Russian investigators and a judge “involved in the arrest of Vladimir Kara-Murza”, according to a statement from the British Foreign Office.
In addition to Denis Kolesnikov, Andrei Zadatchine and Elena Lenskaia, two agents of the Russian security services, Alexandre Samofal and Konstantin Koudriavtsev, “linked to the 2015 and 2017 poisonings” were also charged, the document added.
The five were banned from travel and their assets were frozen.
“The UK will continue to support Kara-Murza and his family,” said British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, calling on Russia to “release him immediately and unconditionally”.
The military offensive launched by Russia in Ukraine on February 24, 2022 has so far led to the flight of more than 14.6 million people – 6.5 million internally displaced persons and more than 8.1 million to European countries – according to the latest data from the UN, which classifies this refugee crisis as the worst in Europe since World War II (1939-1945).
At the moment, at least 18 million Ukrainians need humanitarian aid and 9.3 million people need food aid and shelter.
The Russian invasion – justified by the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, with the need to “denazify” and demilitarize Ukraine for Russian security – was condemned by the international community at large, which responded by sending weapons to Ukraine and Russia political and economic sanctions.
The UN presented 8,534 civilian casualties and 14,370 wounded as confirmed since the start of the war, underlining that these numbers are far below the actual ones.
Source: DN
