Russia has escalated its rhetoric against Britain, with one of Vladimir Putin’s most prominent state television propagandists openly calling for nuclear strikes on British targets as tensions over Ukraine’s long-range drone campaign intensify.
Vladimir Solovyov, a regular Kremlin mouthpiece, demanded that Britain’s arms factories and ships supplying weapons to Ukraine be attacked, even invoking Russia’s nuclear-powered Poseidon underwater drone.
“Hit them with Poseidon,” he said during a primetime broadcast, adding that Britain should be given three days to “learn to breathe underwater”.
The extraordinary comments follow reports that Ukrainian forces have used British-built drones to strike targets deep inside Russia, including industrial and logistics infrastructure. Kyiv has not publicly claimed responsibility for individual attacks.
Solovyov also called for the closure of the British embassy in Moscow and the expulsion of British journalists, describing them in inflammatory terms as he urged Moscow to respond more aggressively.
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The rhetoric was echoed by Vladimir Kornilov, another Kremlin-linked commentator, who warned that Britain should be “nervous” over the reported use of British technology in attacks on Russian territory.
The threats underscore the increasingly direct confrontation between Moscow and London, which has emerged as one of Kyiv’s most important military and financial backers.
Solovyov called for strikes on defence factories across Britain and Europe and advocated attacks on ports and vessels involved in supplying Ukraine.
The comments come as Moscow has separately threatened to retaliate against Western countries over the interception of vessels linked to Russia’s so-called shadow fleet.
Andrey Lugovoy, a hardline Russian MP, claimed Britain had been intimidated by Moscow’s warnings and accused London of attempting to “legalise piracy”.
The escalation highlights the widening gap between diplomatic language and the increasingly belligerent rhetoric broadcast across Russian state media.
While the Kremlin’s television commentators do not necessarily speak for Russian military planners, repeated references to nuclear weapons and attacks on British infrastructure have raised the temperature of an already dangerous confrontation.
For Britain, the threats arrive as ministers seek to deepen military support for Ukraine while avoiding a direct conflict between NATO and Russia — a balancing act made increasingly difficult as the battlefield extends deeper into Russian territory.
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