Russia on Monday threatened to strike British military facilities and said it would hold drills simulating the use of battlefield nuclear weapons amid sharply rising tensions over comments by senior Western officials.

Russia on Monday threatened to strike British military facilities and said it would hold drills simulating the use of battlefield nuclear weapons amid sharply rising tensions over comments by senior Western officials about possibly deeper involvement in the war in Ukraine.

After summoning the British ambassador to the Foreign Ministry, Moscow warned that Ukrainian strikes on Russian territory with U.K.-supplied weapons could bring retaliatory strikes against British military facilities and equipment on Ukrainian soil or elsewhere.

The remarks came on the eve of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s inauguration to a fifth term in office and in a week when Moscow on Thursday will celebrate Victory Day, its most important secular holiday, marking its defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

  • @ChicoSuaveEnglish
    79•7 months ago

    Russia has lost half a dozen ships to a nation with no navy. And they want to throw down with one as experienced as the UK? “Attacking the home of Storm Shadow missiles is a good thing” is the thought of an idiot.

    • Echo DotEnglish
      50•7 months ago

      The Russian navy does not seem to have a defense against explody things in the water. It seems like an oversight, but I’m not a military strategist.

      • @captainlezbianEnglish
        11•7 months ago

        They’re still following their WWII and czarist military doctrine of “we have more people and resources than you”. It’s a shame that Russian military leadership will forever be associated with this instead of having a second chance to demonstrate the actual might and strategy of Trotsky’s red army.

        It sometimes seems like being in power in Russia destroys your ability to have sensible military strategy

        • ArxCyberwolfEnglish
          12•7 months ago

          You don’t rise in the ranks of the Russian military by being competent, you rise by kissing enough asses and having the right connections.

    • @IchNichtenLichtenEnglish
      13•7 months ago

      They could deploy their only aircraft carrier, that’ll show ‘em.

      Oh, wait, never mind.

      “The ship has been out of service and in repairs since 2018. The repair process has been hampered by accidents, embezzlement of funds, and other setbacks. After the floating drydock PD-50 sank in Kola Bay (Murmansk) in an accident that killed one worker in October 2018, the ship was towed to Sevmorput Yard No 35. In another mishap in December 2019, a major fire killed at least one worker and injured ten others. In June 2022, the ship was transferred to a drydock at the 35th Ship Repair Plant in Murmansk, where it remained until February 2023. The current projection is that repairs will be completed and the ship will be transferred back to the Russian Navy sometime in 2024, however this may be pushed back to 2025 if issues arise during overhaul and testing”

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_aircraft_carrier_Admiral_Kuznetsov

      • ASeriesOfPoorChoicesEnglish
        8•7 months ago

        now, to be very upfront about this: I do NOT want to fuck around and find out, but…

        it wouldn’t surprise me if Russia’s entire nuclear arsenal is in a similar state of repair.

        • @IchNichtenLichtenEnglish
          3•7 months ago

          Stripping the copper out and selling it for vodka money?

        • @samus12345English
          2•7 months ago

          They have a lot of them, odds are at least some of them still work.