Russia has sent a chilling threat to the UK, naming 23 locations which could be targeted as tensions continue to rise across Europe.
Despite the best efforts of Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin looks no closer to arranging a peace deal with Ukraine. Meanwhile, other countries in Eastern Europe have also expressed concerns with NATO after the recent actions of Russia.
In the last couple of months, drones from Russia were shot down in Poland, while Putin's country was also accused of violating Estonia's airspace after military aircraft were spotted there, which only increased fears of a third world war.
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov recently denied accusations from the West which claim that Putin is testing NATO's resolve for a world war, saying: "President Putin has repeatedly debunked these provocations. Russia has never had and does not have any such intentions.
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"However, any aggression against my country will be met with a decisive response. There should be no doubt about this among those in NATO and the EU."
However, Lavrov clearly isn't being helped by the likes of senator and war combatant Dmitry Rogozin and TV propagandist Vladimir Solovyov, who both made worrying claims about the UK this week.
Rogozin posted a map highlighting UK defence-related sites as Russia's 'targets', which included military bases in Barrow, Plymouth and Glasgow.
This prompted Solovyov to say: "Dmitry Rogozin today posted a reminder of targets in Britain that could be destroyed first.
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"The idiots will get what's coming to them, they'll just get what's coming to them."
The presenter also described ex-Tory MP Ben Wallace as 'a piece of s*** who lost his job' as defence secretary, and also suggested that he would be to blame if Brits were to die at the hands of Russia.
He said: "He's a nobody, but suddenly he decided to tell us what we should be like.
"When the unfortunate Brits die, they should say your name, because it's you, you moron, who brought trouble to the island.
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"You're a moron… He doesn't care about the lives of Crimeans, he doesn't care about their opinion.
"This is a man who has lost everything in his political career.
"If you remember, he dreamed of becoming NATO head… and [Joe Biden] they told him to get lost…"
It isn't the first time Britain has faced a threat from Russia and Solovyov in particular, with the propagandist not exactly shy in his hatred for the country, previously suggesting that Russia should bomb two UK cities to take control if war does break out.
Topics: Russia, Vladimir Putin
James Moorhouse