A former Russian military official has revealed that the European city will receive its first attacks from Moscow in the event of a “third world war” amid fears that the current crisis in Ukraine could escalate into a wider confrontation.
And Russian lawmaker Andrei Gorolf noted that London was the first city to be attacked in the event of a world war, saying that “the threat to the world comes from the Anglo-Saxons.”
According to the American magazine Newsweek, Guroloff spoke in an interview on a Kremlin-backed channel about what Moscow describes as the Lithuanian-imposed siege of Kaliningrad, Russia.
Earlier, Russia threatened “retaliation” after Lithuania announced sanctions on the transit of goods to the Russian region in the Baltic Sea, which is surrounded by Lithuanian territory.
Grolyov, a former deputy commander of Russia’s southern military district, refused to allow his country to supply Kaliningrad by creating a corridor from Belarus to Lithuania, as Russian forces would be surrounded by NATO on both sides.
On the other hand, the Russian legislature was likely to have Moscow invaded the Baltic, including the return of the Lithuanian capital Vilnius to its “former Vilnius identity” in parallel with the change of the Estonian capital Tallinn from the time of the tsars.
Since Lithuania and Estonia are members of NATO, any Russian attack on them would lead to the activation of Article 5 of the treaty, at which time World War III could begin, a war that Western officials say is being waged by the West. does not want
“We will destroy the entire group of enemy satellites in the first air operation,” Grolyev told a news conference, referring to the possibility of targeting sensitive locations in Europe that could lead to power outages across the continent.
Source: Lebanon Debate
