And the Russian legislator Andrei Gorolev indicated that London would be the first city to be hit in the event of a world war, saying that “a threat to the world comes from the Anglo-Saxons,” as he put it.
According to the American magazine “Newsweek”, Gorolev was speaking in an interview on a Kremlin-backed channel about what Moscow describes as the siege imposed by Lithuania on the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad.
Earlier, Russia threatened to “retaliate”, after Lithuania announced the imposition of sanctions on the transit of goods to the Russian region located on the Baltic Sea, surrounded by the territory of Lithuania.
Grulyov, a former deputy commander of Russia’s Southern Military District, ruled out that his country would resort to supplying Kaliningrad by establishing a corridor from Belarus to Lithuania, because Russian forces would then be surrounded by NATO on both sides.
On the other hand, the Russian legislator pointed to the possibility of Moscow’s invasion of the Baltics, including the return of Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, to its “former identity of Vilno, in parallel with the transformation of the Estonian capital Tallinn from what it was in the days of the Czars to Reval.”
Since Lithuania and Estonia are members of NATO, any attack on them by Russia would lead to the activation of Article 5 of the alliance, and at that time, a third world war might break out, a war that the Russian official says the West does not want.
And Grulyov added in the press interview: “We will destroy the entire group of enemy satellites during the first air operation,” talking about the possibility of targeting sensitive sites in Europe, which will lead to cutting off power to the entire continent.
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