Russia’s most watched talk show presented, with infographics, the theoretical flight time of a Sarmat missile between the enclave of Kaliningrad and the main European capitals.
The Russian media constantly praise the nuclear force of the Kremlin. On the public television channel Rossiya 1, where presenter Olga Skabeyeva forcefully defends “the special operationlaunched by Vladimir Poutine in Ukraine, certain heated spirits openly fantasize the release of the absolute weapon. A guest on the political talk show 60 minutes – the most watched in Russia – enthusiastically commented last Thursday on the possibility of using the new Sarmat missiles against Europe from the Kaliningrad enclave.
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On the screen, based on an infographic showing three European capitals, we can see the time it would take for this nuclear missile to reach them. “Berlin: 106 seconds, Betting: 200 seconds, London: 202 seconds»: the facilitator lists the theoretical flight times before impact. The guest, visibly excited at the prospect, says: “Look at this picture, count the seconds… cuckoo, there (the missile) is already there.» «A Sarmat missile and it’s settled, there are no more British Isles“, he adds very seriously.
While another speaker reminds him of the cataclysmic consequences of the outbreak of a nuclear war, the guest coldly retorts that “we would start from a blank page“.
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On April 20, the Russian military announced the first successful test firing of the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile. “It is truly a unique weapon which will enhance the military potential of our armed forces, which will keep Russia safe from external threats and which will make those who try to threaten our country with unbridled and aggressive rhetoric think twice.said Vladimir Putin.
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But to date, Russia does not have these missiles. They will be deliveredthis falle” to the Russian strategic forces, said Dmitry Rogozin, the boss of Roscosmos, the agency in charge of the Russian civil space program. And this new “tool” remains above all a weapon of deterrence, like the pre-existing ones. “We already don’t know how to intercept a modern intercontinental missile… So that won’t change much in the current situation“, thus judged an expert of the file in Le Figaro .
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