Putin's nuclear threat to 'wipe out' UK as propagandist says world 'will applaud'

A Vladimir Putin stooge has chillingly told of "wiping out" the UK in World War Three threats and claims "humanity would applaud it".

Vladimir Solovyov, the primetime state television host paid hundreds of thousands of pounds a year to spout Kremlin narratives - claimed the transfer of Tomahawk long range rockets to Ukraine would plunge the world into a new Cuban Missile Crisis like in 1962. It is the latest warmongering diatribe from propagandist who has also regularly targeted the UK with his taunts.

Donald Trump is considering whether the Tomahawk - a long-range, jet-powered, subsonic cruise missile - can be supplied to Kyiv, and has hinted that he will.

READ MORE: BA flight to London forced into emergency landing as passengers 'inhale smoke'

READ MORE: Putin admits Russia to blame for Azerbaijan Christmas plane crash that killed 38

And Solovyov warned the West that they should expect a response if these weapons are given to Volodymyr Zelensky, who has been pleading for them. The US and Britain both use the American ship and submarine-based land attack missiles.

“[The West] just need to understand that the transfer of Tomahawk [missiles to Ukraine] is already a new Cuban Crisis,” he said, referring to a moment in the Cold War when the world was on the brink of a nuclear conflict. “And when they try to say: ‘What difference does it make…..?’ It makes no difference, we'll just get hit and that will be the end of it."

He then made his comment about targeting the UK. “[But], by the way, if the United Kingdom is wiped out, I think the whole of humanity will applaud," he said. “God, it's good how they will say it. That's the truth. It's good, they will say.”

Britain - seen in Moscow as the West’s leading cheerleader for Ukraine in its war against Russia - should be where Putin uses his new nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile system, said Solovyov.

“That's where we need to strike with Oreshnik [missile system],” he said. He urged Putin to shock the West first by abruptly withdrawing all Russian diplomats as a sign that a strike was imminent.

“For starters, for example, take all Russian officials [diplomats] out of the United States or Britain,” he said. “Imagine the panic that would ensue if suddenly the embassy left completely…..”

Putin has said that a Tomahawk supply to Ukraine would destroy his relations with Trump. “This will lead to the destruction of our relations, at least the positive trends that had begun in these relations,” said Putin. “So I say what I think. And how things will turn out depends not only on us and not only on me.”