Putin’s UK strike list exposed: 23 targets highlighted in WW3 warning
Senior Russian official flags 23 UK defence sites as potential targets, TV host issues violent threats
A senior Russian figure has publicly pointed to dozens of UK defence-related locations, suggesting they could be targeted by missiles ordered by Vladimir Putin.
Dmitry Rogozin — a senator, veteran of the conflict and former deputy prime minister and head of Russia’s space agency — warned that Britain could become “deadly dangerous.” He posted a map identifying 23 military and defence-industry sites across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, drawn from the UK government’s policy paper Defence Industrial Strategy 2025: Making Defence an Engine for Growth.
Rogozin’s action followed withering attacks from him and pro-Kremlin TV host Vladimir Solovyov on ex-British defence secretary Ben Wallace. Wallace recently urged measures he said would render Crimea “uninhabitable and unviable from a Russian point of view,” arguing Ukraine should “choke it to death” economically and logistically even if a full invasion of the peninsula would be extremely difficult.
Responding to Wallace, Rogozin published the map and accused former Western officials of revealing their true aims. He said the disclosure was “useful” for those who still hoped for peace with what he called “imperialist aggressors,” and warned wealthy Russians against sending their children to study in Britain, calling it “deadly dangerous.”
On state television, Solovyov — widely seen as a Kremlin mouthpiece — amplified the threats. He described Rogozin’s map as a reminder of British sites that “could be destroyed first,” and used profane language to deride Wallace, calling him a “nobody” who had lost office yet was pontificating about policy. Solovyov even threatened to deploy Russia’s Poseidon underwater nuclear drone against the UK, taunting that Britain “doesn’t even exist” in the face of such power, and blamed Wallace for bringing “trouble to the island.”
The threats came amid another alarming suggestion on Russian state TV: a proposed sabotage of a Second World War wreck in the Thames estuary. Presenters discussed striking the SS Richard Montgomery — a 1944 Liberty ship that ran aground near the Isle of Grain and still contains an estimated 1,400 tonnes of explosives — and framed such an attack as retaliation for alleged British involvement in operations that damaged Russian oil refineries.
Historian Dr Andrey Sidorov, quoted on the broadcast, warned of the scale of the danger: with explosives still aboard and masts visible, detonating the wreck could inundate nearby villages and ports — a scenario he chillingly suggested should be considered “right today,” while disclaiming responsibility for terrorism.
