Titled “For Those Who Didn’t Get It the First Time,” Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of the lower house of parliament and a member of Putin’s Security Council, warned — once again, as Moscow often does now — of nuclear war if it accepts the European Parliament’s proposed resolution to lift restrictions that prevent Ukraine from using Western long-range weapons against targets inside Russia.
“What the European Parliament is calling for is to lead to a global nuclear war,” Volodin wrote on Telegram, referring to Putin’s warning last week that the West would enter into immediate conflict with Russia if it allowed Ukraine to launch long-range missiles into Russian territory.
The war in Ukraine has triggered the biggest confrontation between Russia and the West since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, when the two Cold War superpowers came close to nuclear war.
“Satan II takes only 3 minutes and 20 seconds”
Referring to outgoing NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg’s remarks to The Times this week that the Kremlin leader had set “red lines” in the past but had not escalated conflict with the West when they were crossed, he called the comment “dangerous and defiant”.
He also threatened that “Europeans should understand that Russia’s RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile (ss: known in the West as Satan II) would take just 3 minutes and 20 seconds to reach Strasbourg, where the European Parliament is located.
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