
Politics
Share
Published 16:15 29 Apr 2025 BST
Updated 16:15 29 Apr 2025 BST

Russian president Vladimir Putin has been flexing his nuclear-powered muscles in the wake of those World War III threats.
"You don't understand the main thing. We see right through your coalition of peacemakers, who are not peacemakers but basically interventionists, will be destroyed," he began.
"You have to realise that not only the frontline units you're planning to deploy on the territory of Ukraine will be destroyed, but since we can't perceive it in any other way other than the direct participation of your countries, you will feel the consequences, the likes of which you have never seen. All of your howling will not help you."
This of course isn’t the first time a Third World War has been bandied about by Ukraine's invaders.
In November 2024, Putin threatened a direct missile strike on UK shores, explaining: “In response to the use of American and British long-range weapons on November 21 of this year, the Russian armed forces launched a combined strike on one of the facilities of the Ukrainian defence industry. One of the newest Russian medium-range missile systems was tested in combat conditions, in this case, with a ballistic missile in a non-nuclear hypersonic warhead.
“We consider ourselves entitled to use our weapons against military facilities of those countries that allow their weapons to be used against our facilities.”
Explore more on these topics:
A new video shows the country's Krasnoyarsk submarine dispatching a 700-mile Kalibr missile in a test strike. One of them hit an underwater target in the Pacific Ocean, while a second was launched towards the Kamchatka coast.
This unfolded as Putin's mouthpiece and broadcaster Vladimir Solovyov recently alluded to a potentially "sad" end for the UK, France, Germany, and the Baltic states on his late-night TV show, following Keir Starmer's 'coalition of the willing' that congregated 26 of Europe’s leaders in to discuss “reassurance force” options should Russia resume its attacks on Ukraine despite agreeing to a ceasefire.

All the animals shortlisted to feature on new banknotes
Some are excluded The public can have their say on which creatures feature on future banknotes, as eighteen animals, birds and insects have been shortlisted to appear. On the next series of Bank of England notes, the wildlife beauty contest gives the colourful kingfisher and common frog an equal chance of a place. Earlier this […]
Politics
13h
Why Google wants to release 32,000,000 infected mosquitoes into the wild
It’s not quite as crazy as it sounds Google wants to release 32,000,000 disease-infected mosquitoes into the wild. Yes, you heard that right, and while this may sound like the evil masterplan of a crazed villain, the project is actually one of goodwill for the betterment of humanity. For thousands of years, humans have been […]
Politics
14h
KSI revealed heartbreaking reason why he is leaving Sidemen before announcement
Politics