A NUCLEAR armageddon volition spot "Russians spell to eden and the West banished to hell", a Kremlin propagandist has said successful a bizarre TV rant.
Top Putin crony Andrey Lugovoy - who is accused of assassinating erstwhile Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko connected British soil - said the dictator could "end quality history" with his hypersonic atomic arsenal.
Lugovoy, 58, is wanted by the UK authorities for Litvinenko's execution successful London successful 2006.
But the Kremlin dictator has repeatedly refused to extradite him.
The alleged slayer appeared connected Russian nationalist TV to present a sick rant astir Russia nuking the West.
Speaking connected propaganda transmission Tsargrad TV, Lugovoy bluntly said: “Given that determination are atomic weapons successful the world, we should ever hole for the anticipation of atomic clashes, particularly since we person conscionable changed our atomic doctrine.
"They're hitting [Russian regions] Kursk, Bryansk. Tomorrow they'll deed Moscow. We volition person to marque a determination that volition propulsion things to the limit."
The propagandist past went connected to accidental Putin would destruct the full satellite and "end the quality race" successful lawsuit of a atomic war.
And that the West volition spell to hell.
He added: "[Nuke war] volition beryllium the extremity of quality history. That's what President Putin is talking about.
"We person 2 options. Either we hold that Russia is gone, and humanity lives and thrives.
"Or they volition spell to hell, arsenic the president said, and we volition spell to heaven."
A US quality study recovered that Lugovoy was straight linked to the sidesplitting of Litvinenko - and that it was personally signed disconnected by Putin successful 2006.
The appraisal said: "The authoritative British enquiry into Litvinenko's execution concluded that Putin 'probably approved' it, based upon a reappraisal of carnal grounds and decisionmaking connected matters related to the information services."
The Kremlin has ever denied the allegations.
The assassination made headlines astir the satellite and the lawsuit has since been explored successful a fig of documentaries arsenic good arsenic a 2023 ITV series.
Litvinenko: The assassination that shocked the world
ALEXANDER Litvinenko had been an serviceman with the Federal Security Service (FSB) - the successor to the KGB - but fled to Britain with his household to question governmental asylum aft criticising Russian President Vladimir Putin.
His execution was suspected to person been personally signed disconnected by Putin, thing the Kremlin has repeatedly denied.
The erstwhile Russian spy met Lugovoy astatine the Millennium Hotel successful London's Mayfair for a cupful of tea.
But soon aft the meeting, helium fell highly sick and began vomiting.
He was rushed to the hospital, but dude 3 weeks later.
It is believed Lugovoy slipped deadly radioactive polonium-210 into his cupful of tea.
Before his death, the erstwhile KGB spy reported his ain murder to the police, saying helium had been assassinated connected the orders of Putin.
He said: “This was done by the Russian concealed work due to the fact that I person cognition of this system.
"I cognize that to termination a national of different country this bid tin beryllium fixed lone by 1 person. This idiosyncratic is the president of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin."
A radioactive way astir London was besides recovered by investigators.
Ex-Scotland Yard lawman commissioner Peter Clarke, who led the enquiry into the decease and features successful Channel 4 doc, believed this was a lawsuit of "state-sponsored murder".
Russia refused to extradite Lugovoy and 1 of his accomplices to look proceedings successful Britain.
Litvinenko's decease was dramatised for the 2023 ITVX series Litvinenko, with former Doctor Who star David Tennant playing the pb role.
The 4 episodes travel the radical of detectives investigating the fatal poisoning.
The documentary features an interrogation with apical Scotland Yard bull Clive Timmons who investigated the whistle-blower's decease successful 2006.
This is not the archetypal clip Putin's stooges person threatened the demolition of the West successful bizarre TV rants.
Top Putin crony Dmitry Kiselyov warned that immoderate bid by the West to "inflict a strategical decision connected Russia” would effect successful Armageddon.
He said that Putin volition descend Britain nether a atomic tidal wave if Nato sends troops to Ukraine.
Kiselyov - a TV presenter who is besides main of Russia’s largest propaganda empire - said Putin would unleash Satan-2 and different deadly atomic missiles.
The hardliner warned the West not to thrust Putin into a corner.
Speaking connected nationalist television, Kiselyov said: "If NATO countries nonstop their troops into Ukraine successful bid to inflict a strategical decision connected Russia, past the precise infinitesimal astir which Putin erstwhile said, ‘Why bash we request the world, if determination is nary Russia successful it?’ would come.
“Then everything [all types of missile] would beryllium launched by us, successful each absorption - Sarmats, Yars, and Avangards.
"American decision-making centres and launchers connected onshore and astatine oversea are already successful their sights.
"France arsenic a atomic powerfulness volition person to beryllium disarmed instantly.
“The British Isles volition simply spell underwater. We person each the required exertion for this….but it’s amended not to fto things get to that point.”