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Published 13:13 5 Jun 2025 BST
Updated 14:56 5 Jun 2025 BST
Russian documents suggesting they have trained to target three UK locations have been leaked.
Three UK locations are among the alleged list of places that Russian President Vladimir Putin reportedly has targeted, according to the Financial Times.
The secret papers reveal that Russia could unleash huge attacks ‘from various directions’.
They suggest that Putin's warships are primed to use tactical nuclear weapons in the early stages of warfare.
The UK locations in the Russian documents include Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria, home to the Royal Navy's nuclear submarine shipyard.
It is believed that the shipyard is thought to be one of the main targets.
Among the other locations is a factory in Hull, and a shipyard at Rosyth where the Royal Navy's aircraft carriers HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales were built.
The leak comes not long after Putin's regime clapped back at Sir Keir Starmer's Defence Review.
The Kremlin's most prevalent propaganda show had threatened Britain with nuclear annihilation and 'painful' radiation deaths.
Vladimir Solovyov, a key figure in Russian state television went on to say that if Britain plans for a direct military confrontation with Russia, 'they will all be dead'.
Political scientist Dmitry Evstafiev then goes on to add that death by radiation is quick and painful.
The propaganda further urged Scotland and Wales to declare their independence before it was too late.
Evstafiev ends the broadcast by undermining Sir Keir Starmer's military experience, saying Starmer “has never served in the army – he had no basic military training at school.”
The leaked documents are said to have been drawn up between 2008 and 2014.
However, The Financial Times refers to them as extremely relevant due to the current state of affairs.
Former NATO official William Alberque labelled the documents as a small amount of ‘hundreds, if not thousands, of targets mapped across Europe…including military and critical infrastructure targets’.
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