Vladimir Putin has been urged to unleash a nuclear attack on London in response to Donald Trump's push for Russia to bring its Ukraine invasion to a close.
Speaking on Russian state television, pro-Putin MP Andrey Gurulev had called on his president to relaunch Russia's atomic programme with a test strike on Novaya Zemlya, a series of Russian islands in the Arctic Ocean.
He said: "Look at what Trump is doing. He appears not as President of the United States, but as the master of the world. Is he threatening us or what?
"Maybe our president should get an account on X, and respond... And the best answer would be to stage good nuclear explosions on Novaya Zemlya, frankly."
But commentator Vladimir Solovyov then turned up the heat, declaring that 72-year-old Russian premier Putin should instead flatten Britain's capital.
"Why should Novaya Zemlya be tortured? Rather than London? [The British] will think it's just fireworks," he jabbed.
A standard 500-kiloton Russian warhead would kill hundreds of thousands of people if launched into the centre of London.
But the chilling potential death toll did not stop the pair mouthing off on state TV following Trump's direct ultimatum to Putin yesterday.
In an attempt to follow through on his pre-election promises to bring the war to a swift end, Trump had written on his social media platform Truth Social: "I'm not looking to hurt Russia. I love the Russian people, and always had a very good relationship with President Putin."
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He added: "All of that being said, I'm going to do Russia - whose economy is failing - and president Putin, a very big favour.
"Settle now, and STOP this ridiculous war! IT'S ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE.
"If we don't make a 'deal', and soon, I have no other choice but to put high levels of taxes, tariffs, and sanctions on anything being sold by Russia to the United States, and various other participating countries.
"Let's get this war, which never would have started if I were President, over with!"
And on Thursday, Trump vowed that he "really would like to be able to meet with president Putin soon to get that war ended."
Trump, addressing the World Economic Forum in Davos via video link, said: "And that's not from the standpoint of economy or anything else.
"It's from the standpoint of millions of lives are being wasted... It's carnage. And we really have to stop that war."
At the White House this afternoon, he added: "From what I hear, Putin would like to see me, and we'll leave as soon as we can. I'd meet immediately... Every day we don't meet, soldiers are being killed in the battlefield."
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Speaking on Russian state television, pro-Putin MP Andrey Gurulev had called on his president to relaunch Russia's atomic programme with a test strike on Novaya Zemlya, a series of Russian islands in the Arctic Ocean.
He said: "Look at what Trump is doing. He appears not as President of the United States, but as the master of the world. Is he threatening us or what?
"Maybe our president should get an account on X, and respond... And the best answer would be to stage good nuclear explosions on Novaya Zemlya, frankly."
But commentator Vladimir Solovyov then turned up the heat, declaring that 72-year-old Russian premier Putin should instead flatten Britain's capital.
"Why should Novaya Zemlya be tortured? Rather than London? [The British] will think it's just fireworks," he jabbed.
A standard 500-kiloton Russian warhead would kill hundreds of thousands of people if launched into the centre of London.
But the chilling potential death toll did not stop the pair mouthing off on state TV following Trump's direct ultimatum to Putin yesterday.
In an attempt to follow through on his pre-election promises to bring the war to a swift end, Trump had written on his social media platform Truth Social: "I'm not looking to hurt Russia. I love the Russian people, and always had a very good relationship with President Putin."
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He added: "All of that being said, I'm going to do Russia - whose economy is failing - and president Putin, a very big favour.
"Settle now, and STOP this ridiculous war! IT'S ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE.
"If we don't make a 'deal', and soon, I have no other choice but to put high levels of taxes, tariffs, and sanctions on anything being sold by Russia to the United States, and various other participating countries.
"Let's get this war, which never would have started if I were President, over with!"
And on Thursday, Trump vowed that he "really would like to be able to meet with president Putin soon to get that war ended."
Trump, addressing the World Economic Forum in Davos via video link, said: "And that's not from the standpoint of economy or anything else.
"It's from the standpoint of millions of lives are being wasted... It's carnage. And we really have to stop that war."
At the White House this afternoon, he added: "From what I hear, Putin would like to see me, and we'll leave as soon as we can. I'd meet immediately... Every day we don't meet, soldiers are being killed in the battlefield."
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