Russian TV airs chilling nuclear threat against NATO amid Ukraine conflict
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Solovyov strikes fear with nuclear threat once more
Kremlin mouthpiece Vladimir Solovyov, who earns a staggering salary of over 1.5 billion rubles (approximately £15.6 million) from Putin for disseminating propaganda, has raised eyebrows once again.
In his show, meteorologist Yevgeny Tishkovets made an appearance, stating that "the weather is perfect for conducting nuclear attacks on NATO countries."
This pronouncement shocked even those well-versed in Kremlin propaganda dynamics. "You won't encounter a weather forecast like this anywhere else in the world," noted expert Julia Davis from Russian Media Monitor.
Merely a few days earlier, on his show, Solovyov argued that "Europe should be decimated."
"We consistently free Europe from yet another mess. How are we harming them? We uphold the true values of Europe," he boasted on the state channel Rossija1.
Russia reduces the threshold to an unprecedented low
In late February, the "Financial Times" reported that Russia had decreased the threshold for the use of tactical nuclear weapons to a level never before publicly acknowledged. "The Kremlin might deploy this arsenal at an early stage of a conflict with another superpower," as per Russian military documents.
Russian tactical nuclear weapons, which can be mounted on missiles launched from land, sea, or aircraft, are designed for localized use on battlefields in Europe and Asia, in contrast to the larger "strategic" weapons meant for strikes against the USA. However, as "FT" highlighted, modern tactical warheads are capable of unleashing a vastly greater blast than the bombs the Americans dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in 1945.
