Russians sends horror WW3 threat to sink British ships – ‘Destroy them!’ | World | News
Putin’s propagandists have sent a terrifying threat (Image: Getty)
Russia has threatened to “sink” Royal Navy warships after Britain’s announcement that it will halt, board and detain Vladimir Putin shadow fleet vessels fuelling his war machine.
Moscow has dismissed such impounding as “piracy” with Russian state TV – which parrots Kremlin orders – warning of missile strikes.
“Russia must take responsibility for combating piracy, and so will be forced to sink British Royal Navy ships involved in piracy and the hijacking of commercial vessels,” said Putin mouthpiece Vladimir Solovyov.
“We must warn them that we will destroy them by all possible means, not by deploying our ships to the area.
“Aircraft and missiles may be used. But we are obliged to combat global piracy.”
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British Premier Sir Keir Starmer announced that the UK’s special forces have been given the go-ahead to intercept and hold Russian shadow fleet vessels, often used to transport sanctions-busting oil via the English Channel.
Solovyov – decorated by Putin for services to his propaganda machine – declared: “We recognise the very fact that British ships received orders from the British Crown to seize commercial shipping vessels as piracy.
“And we will combat piracy…..”
Sarcastically, he alluded to the Royal Navy’s shrunken presence in the world’s seaways, referring to a destroyer now patrolling off Cyprus and one of two aircraft carriers.
He told viewers: “I wonder, after we sink the first two British ships, how many will they have left?”
Historian Andrey Sidorov told him: “First the Dragon, then the Prince of Wales, and that’s it.”
Solovyov said: “That’s the point, not many, right?
“So, Britain doesn’t rule the seas [any more]. Relax, your time is up.”
Many of the Russian ‘shadow fleet’ vessels are old, uninsured and of questionable seaworthiness.
Since the Starmer threat, some have diverted to avoid the English Channel and instead sail via Irish controlled waters.
The Moscow threat came as Ukraine maintained an intense campaign of strikes on Russia which have alarmed Putin’s war-backers.
Four hours of drone strikes struck Azov Sea port Taganrog, home to the Beriev Aircraft Company used to produce, upgrade, maintain and repair Russia’s A-50U airborne early-warning aircraft.
A state of emergency was declared in the Rostov region city, where one person was killed in damage to residential areas and a school from downed drones.
Residents were being evacuated from around the scene of the main strike.
A major metallurgical plant was hit in Alchevsk, in the Russian-occupied Luhansk region off Ukraine.
There were explosions at KuybyshevAzot chemical plant in Togliatti, Samara region for the second time this month.
Meanwhile, key Russian oil port Ust-Luga in Leningrad region continued to burn in a massive inferno after five days of attacks.
Strikes on oil exporting facilities have dramatically slashed Putin’s ability to earn petrodollars to boost his war machine.
