A chilling moment on Russian state TV on Monday saw hosts issue the latest in a long line of threats, this time warning Putin could “destroy the entire east coast of the US” with just two missiles.
TheSun revealed that in footage from Russia’s flagship propaganda show, a member of Russia’s parliament boasts about the nation’s military might, before also labeling 2 million Ukrainians as “incurable.” The politician, Alexie Zhuravlev, was joined on the talk show by fellow MP and Russian-state mouthpiece Yevgeny Popov, the host of the Rossiya 1 channel show.
The lawmaker claimed that two of Russia’s Sarmat ‘Satan 2’ missiles would destroy the entirety of America’s east coast – before adding it would take just “two missiles for the west coast” as well. “Four missiles and there’ll be nothing left. “They think the mushroom cloud will be taller than a high rise. That mushroom cloud will be visible from Mexico” said Zhuravlev.
Many of the veiled and overt threats from Russian state pundits and politicians have involved the world-ending Satan II missile, which is said to be capable of carrying warheads with 50 times the obliteration power of the Hiroshima bomb. In another interview, Zhuravlyov, 59, said the Sarmat would reduce the US to “nuclear ashes” if they “think that Russia should not exist”.
His comments echoed those of Dmitry Rogozin, a fervent chum of the tyrant, who claimed the missiles could destroy huge sections of the US before turning his sight on the UK and warning the missile could reach British targets in 200 seconds.
Rogozin- who heads Russia’s space agency Roscosmos – boasted the hypersonic missile could demolish “half the coast of a continent” while visiting schoolchildren. Wearing his space agency uniform, he showed them a video of a number of Russia ’s strategic rockets at a “federal education marathon” called New Horizons.
This culminated in him showing them the Sarmat, also known as Satan-2, an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of striking targets at 15,880mph. “Here you see the test launches of our missiles,” he boasted. Russia’s new ‘big beast’ hypersonic Sarmat is a 208-ton 15,880mph intercontinental ballistic missile. Putin has said the weapon is “unstoppable” by the West with “no analogues…in the world for a long time to come”.
