Officials within the Russian regime of Vladimir Putin threatened nuclear war against the U.S. for supplying assistance to Ukraine, declaring that four of Russia’s brand-new intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) could annihilate both of America’s coasts.
“I will tell you absolutely competently that to destroy the entire the East Coast of the United States, two Sarmat missiles are needed,” Alexei Zhuravlev, a member of Russia’s parliament, told Russian state television.
“And the same goes for the West Coast,” he added. “Four missiles, and there will be nothing left.”
Zhuravlev referenced a report from CBS News previously this year that stated that a nuclear strike on New York City would yield a mushroom cloud that rise above the city’s highest structures, to which Zhuravlev scoffed, “the mushroom [cloud] would be visible from Mexico.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin stated back in April that his armed force had actually effectively introduced the brand-new ICBM, including that the new nuclear weapon would “reliably ensure Russia’s security in the face of external threats, and will provide food for thought to those who in the heat of frenzied aggressive rhetoric try to threaten our country.”
The Washington Post reported that the RS-28 Sarmat, called the “Satan-2” rocket, was created to change the nation’s out-of-date Soviet-era Voevoda rocket. The Satan-2 “is considered Russia’s most powerful ICBM: a super-heavy, thermonuclear-armed intercontinental-range ballistic missile,” the report added.
Zhuravlev’s hazard versus the U.S. comes as the Biden administration has actually provided Ukraine with billions of dollars of weapons to ward off Russia’s illegal invasion of the sovereign nation.
The threat comes on the heels of a new statement from the Biden-Harris regime that it will send out Ukraine the most innovative weapons system that it has ever provided to the Eastern European nation through the first three months of Russia’s war of conquest against Ukraine.
Joe Biden made the announcement in an op-ed released in The New York Times on Tuesday afternoon, stating that the U.S. will supply innovative rocket systems and munitions to Ukraine “that will enable them to more precisely strike key targets on the battlefield in Ukraine.”
“The High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) that the U.S. is sending is a mobile rocket launcher that can strike targets from 40 to over 300 miles away, depending on the type of rocket it is outfitted with,” Politico reported. “The rockets that the administration has decided to send are on the shorter end, reaching up to 48 miles.”
However, a senior administration official later said that the weapons system was just assured to Ukraine after the U.S. got “direct guarantees” from Ukraine’s leaders that it would not be utilized to strike targets inside Russia.
H/T The Daily Wire
