Ex-Putin adviser warns UK cities could be hit with nuclear weapons if Britain ‘continues to be aggressor’

A former adviser to Vladimir Putin has claimed British cities could be nuclear targets for the Russian president and blamed the West for the Ukraine war after he made a bizarre rant on British radio.

Sergey Markov made a series of unsubstantiated claims — including that Ukrainian soldiers were being “served as slaves” by Western countries — before yelling into phone lines in an interview.

He had threatened the West with nuclear war before he was asked any questions on the BBC’s Today programme on Wednesday morning.

“Good morning,” the host said, to which the former Putin adviser responded: “Good morning. Well, it’s not good morning…for everyone.”

He continued: “To the West, to you, the British audience, I would say that Vladimir Putin told us that he would be ready to use nuclear weapons against Western countries, including the United Kingdom.

Mr. Markov said “your city will be the target…” before being interrupted.

Putin warned in a national address on Wednesday that he would be prepared to use weapons of mass destruction to “protect” his country.

“When the territorial integrity of our country is threatened, we will use all means at our disposal to protect Russia and our people,” the Russian president said.

Markov was asked if he believed that the Russian leader had explicitly threatened to use tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine and to start a full-scale nuclear war that would kill everyone.

He replied “not everyone”, but added that “it could kill a lot of people in Western countries”.

‘I would say everyone in the world…is thinking about nuclear war,’ said the former Putin adviser. This nuclear war may have been caused by the madness of US President Joe Biden and British Prime Ministers Boris Johnson and Liz Truss. “

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