We’re ready for war TONIGHT, says Brit army chief after Storm Shadow blows up North Korean general & Putin threatens UK

A BRIT service main says the British Army would beryllium acceptable to "fight tonight" aft a apical North Korean wide was blown up successful a Storm Shadow onslaught arsenic Putin warns the UK of atomic armageddon.

Senior serviceman Rob Magowan made the chilling connection to MPs arsenic tensions betwixt Russia and the West continue to spiral.

The service main said that Britain's equipped forced would beryllium acceptable to combat their Russian counterparts "tonight" if huffy Vladimir Putin were to invade different Eastern European nation.

The lawman main of the British defence unit blatantly told the House of Commons defence committee: "If the British Army was asked to combat tonight, it would combat tonight.

"I don't deliberation anybody successful this country should beryllium nether immoderate illusion that if the Russians invaded Eastern Europe tonight, past we would conscionable them successful that fight."

It comes aft a elder North Korean wide was injured successful a Ukrainian onslaught successful Russia's Kursk portion connected Thursday successful a Storm Shadow attack.

And Putin's pal Kim Jong Un warned of "destructive" atomic warfare arsenic helium rages against the West for helping Ukraine successful targeting Russia.

In a code astatine a subject accumulation connected Thursday the tubby dictator warned that "never before" had the Korean peninsula encountered "such a unsafe and acute confrontation", KNCA reports.

He added that the boiling tensions "could escalate into the astir destructive thermonuclear war."

Meanwhile Ukrainian MPs are preparing for a Russian rocket onslaught connected their parliament gathering arsenic 1 of the country's ex-top general's eerily claims that World War Three had officially begun.

Nato's Eastern European members including Latvia and Estonia person been anxiously watching Russia's bloody penetration of Ukraine since it began successful 2022.

Finland, which borders Russia to its east, has taken its ain enactment successful ramping up nationalist information by publishing proposal for citizens to hole "for incidents and crises".

Nordic citizens were besides told to prepare for war and handed chilling endurance guides and Germany's World War Three mentation plans were revealed successful a 1,000-page concealed document.

Putin said connected Thursday that his warfare successful Ukraine was escalating towards a planetary struggle aft the US and Britain allowed Ukraine to onslaught deeper into Russia with Storm Shadow and ATACMS.

He has since warned the West that Moscow could devastatingly onslaught back.

In nonstop effect helium said Russia had launched a caller benignant of hypersonic ballistic rocket dubbed "Oreshnik" astatine a defence endeavor successful the Ukrainian metropolis of Dnipro.

This deadly missile, according to Putin, travelled astatine 10 times the velocity of dependable and truthful couldn't beryllium intercepted.

Russian sources assertion the scope was 5,000 km - which would let Russia to devastatingly onslaught astir of Europe and the westbound seashore of the US.

It was initially thought that Russia had fired an intercontinental ballistic rocket (ICBM), but the US clarified that this was incorrect.

In a televised code connected Thursday, Putin said: "Russia considers itself entitled to usage weapons against subject facilities of countries that licence the usage of their weapons against Russia.

"Since this moment, arsenic we person underscored repeatedly, the struggle successful Ukraine, provoked by the West, has acquired elements of planetary nature."

Confirming the usage of the caller Oreshnik, the huffy dictator gloated: "One of the newest Russian medium-range rocket systems was tested, among different things," helium said successful his TV address.

"In this case, with a ballistic rocket successful a nuclear-free hypersonic equipment. Our engineers named it Oreshnik.

"In effect to the usage of American and British long-range weapons, connected November 21 of this year, the Russian equipped forces launched a combined onslaught connected 1 of the facilities of the military-industrial analyzable of Ukraine."

He warned that it could usage the limb against countries that person allowed Kyiv to usage its missiles to onslaught Russia.

And that determination is presently nary means to antagonistic specified a weapon.

The dictator added: "If necessary, we volition take targets for destruction. There are presently nary means to antagonistic specified weapons. It is impossible.

"'I urge that the ruling elites of those countries which are considering allegiance against Russia earnestly see this."

Ukraine branded Russia's onslaught a large ramping up of the "scale and brutality" of the warfare by a "crazy neighbour".

And the US said that Moscow was to blasted for escalating the struggle "at each turn".

Zelensky said the caller hypersonic ballistic rocket reached the velocity and heights of an ICBM.

ICBMs person a scope of implicit 5,500km and were designed for atomic war.

They blast into the borderline of abstraction and tin scope speeds of 13,000mph earlier hurtling astir down to their targets.

Britain’s defence caput John Healey said Russia had been readying the onslaught “for months”.

China has reiterated calls for "calm" and restraint by each parties successful the war.

Bejing said connected Friday: "China's presumption connected the Ukraine contented has been accordant and clear, advocating for resolving the situation done governmental means and avoiding an escalation of the situation."

China claims to beryllium a neutral enactment erstwhile it comes to the Ukraine warfare and says it is not sending immoderate assistance to either broadside - dissimilar the US and chap Western nations.

But it's known that China remains a adjacent governmental and economical person to Putin and so Russia.

Nato has antecedently labelled Beijing a "decisive enabler" of the war.

Kyiv launched US ATACMS missiles against Putin's territory overnight connected Monday - and British Storm Shadow rockets connected Wednesday.

Russia threatened to "react accordingly" as embassies successful superior metropolis Kyiv closed down yesterday successful fearfulness of a retaliation.

Moscow's ambassador to the UK accused Britain of being "directly involved" successful the Ukraine warfare aft the Storm Shadow onslaught against targets heavy wrong Russia.

Andrei Kelin told Sky News: "Britain and the UK is present straight progressive successful this war, due to the fact that this firing cannot hap without Nato staff, British unit arsenic well."

Moscow warned for months that the usage of Western long-range missiles by Ukraine would people a large escalation.

In September, a snarling Putin said it would "mean that Nato countries are astatine warfare with Russia".

And connected Tuesday the rattled despot treble down, approving a caller atomic doctrine just hours aft the ATACMS strike.

The caller argumentation allows Moscow to usage atomic weapons against non-nuclear states and Russia said the determination should beryllium seen arsenic a informing to the West.

Putin's propagandist puppets blasted threats against the US and UK connected TV - with apical Kremlin lap-dog Dmitry Peskov swearing that the usage of Western non-nuclear missiles by Ukraine's armies could spark a atomic response.