Russia BOMB warning: Putin urged to fire NUCLEAR weapon at North Sea island

Russia BOMB warning: Putin urged to fire NUCLEAR weapon at North Sea island

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VLADIMIR Putin has been ordered to fire a nuclear weapon at EUROPE to prove the Kremlin is serious about defending its territory.

 

 

Senior Russian politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky made the outrageous proposal for Moscow to bomb a state and destroy an entire island within the North Sea to prove its sincerity over threats to protect its interests abroad.

 

The the leader of the ultra-nationalist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia was quoted on a Ukrainian website as saying: "In the North Sea there is a small island, a small country of 200,000 people.

 

"Brussels should say: look, here is an island. Now there is no island. The country is no longer.

 

"We should show what our nuclear forces are capable of."

 

It is unclear which island in the North Sea the bizarre assertion relates to.

 

The Shetland, Orkney and Faroe islands are all located within the North Sea but none of them have populations numbering even close to 200,000.

 

Norway, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands also claim island territory in the region.

 

Mr Zhirinovsky made the provocative comments during a live broadcast on Russian TV channel Rossia 1.

 

The eccentric far-right politician is no stranger to controversy, having released an election video in 2012 showing him riding a sleigh harnessed to a donkey that was widely ridiculed.

 

His words follow a Cold War-style battle between Russia and the US after Moscow announced plans to restore an ageing missile defence system near the Black Sea.

 

The announcement came just days after the US opened a similar station in Romania

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The project, which has been 10 years in the making, is designed to shield Nato members from missile attack.

 

But Moscow claims the missile shield's real aim is to neutralise Moscow's nuclear arsenal long enough for the US to make a first strike on Russia in the event of war.

 

When completed, the defensive umbrella will stretch from Greenland in the far north of Europe to the Azores in the south.