World leaders are warned that they are ‘staring into the abyss of a Third World War’ as Russia is positioning long-range strategic bombers and carrying out drills in several days of ‘war games’
Putin has positioned long-range strategic bombers in varied military drills practicing strikes against Western targets with the UN Security that it was “staring into the abyss of a Third World War.” It comes as Russia is being accused of “targeting” a NATO base located in Poland with drones.
New footage shows the Kremlin’s Tu-22M3 long-range strategic bombers carrying out airstrikes on “simulated opponents” with the aim to “disrupt the control system and destroy critical objects.”
Bastion missile systems based on Franz Josef Land launched Onyx missiles at a “simulated enemy” in the Arctic during the sessions, Express US reports.
The Zapad-2025 maneuvers lasted four days and stretched across Belarus, Russia, and Arctic territory, directly confronting NATO.
Reports suggest that Moscow is preparing to deploy the “super-weapon” Oreshnik in Belarus, which borders Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Ukraine.
The UN Security Council warned leaders of the possibility of another global conflict. Ukraine’s UN envoy, Andriy Melnyk, said that unless Putin is stopped, “tomorrow it could be drones or even missiles falling on Berlin, Paris, or London. And the day after, who knows, something might even ‘accidentally’ cross the Atlantic.”
He further said: ” Russia is not mocking this council. It is spitting in your face. We are staring into the abyss of a Third World War.”
It comes as Vladimir Putin is secretly building a military base that could strike Britain in just eight minutes.
Pro-Kremlin media are reporting the new base will include the capability of holding the Oreshnik missile, which has been used to target cities in Ukraine, causing untold amounts of damage. This means that the “Doomsday nuke”, if launched, could raze London to the ground in just eight minutes.
The claims come after the Polish military confirmed that Russia had crossed into Polish airspace with its missiles. The escalation was the latest in dangerous rhetoric from Putin, who claimed that Moscow would be unable to accept Western troops on the ground in Ukraine as a security guarantee.
Now, construction is taking place on a site close to the village of Pavolvka in neighbouring Belarus. Just a few kilometres south of the capital Minsk, satellite images of the site show the area is looking more and more like a Russian military site, despite being placed in a completely separate country.
Aerial images of the site show that the size of the potential base is huge, spanning a total of 280 football pitches. On top of this, the Mirror reports that there are some 13 different depots for ammunition to be seen, all being hidden by specifically designed walls for defence.
Military experts now believe that Oreshnik missiles could be placed at the base once fully operational. As a result, it means that Moscow could easily put London into striking range, wreaking havoc for millions of people.
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