Kremlin propaganda has accused British military divers of being responsible for this week’s gas pipe explosions in the Baltic Sea.
Earlier this week Vladimir Putin condemned the attacks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines as ‘unprecedented sabotage’ and ‘an act of international terrorism’.
Yet despite accusing the Americans of carrying out the attacks just a day earlier, Russian state TV has pivoted to blaming the British for the incident and threatened a nuclear response.
1TV presenter Olga Skabeyeva, known locally as the ‘Iron Doll of Putin TV’, said there were a lot of ‘coincidences’ between the pipeline explosions and alleged British military activity in the area.
‘If you look at the military activity in the bombing area, there are a lot of coincidences,’ the presenter told viewers.
‘Watch your hands, as they say.’
Without citing any evidence, Skabeyeva said: ‘On the morning after the explosion, a report came to the White House that British scuba diving exercises were going on for the third day right next to the Nord Stream.
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‘The same day London rewarded them for some kind of combat merit in carrying out an important exercise in foreign territorial waters, whatever that means.
‘A few weeks before the explosion, an American military helicopter circled tightly over the scene.
‘Yes and the blast site is just a hushed up place for exercises, it is where Denmark and NATO train regularly.
‘In June the US boasted of successes in the field of underwater drones, which were tested.
‘Where? Again at the same location.
‘Now Pentagon chief [Lloyd] Austin is offering Denmark and Sweden his help in the investigation.
‘And all of a sudden the Western media is trying hard to push the idea into the minds of the general public that the gas explosions were caused by the Kremlin, which of course benefits Gazprom.’
The presenter admitted she had ‘no proof’ to back up her allegations but said British involvement was ‘highly likely’.
The Western consensus is that the pipeline explosions were a ‘false flag’ operation conducted by the Russians, acting as a warning of Putin’s capability to cause mayhem by exploding key gas and electricity pipelines as well as communications cables under the sea.
The news comes as Putin prepares to annex large chunks of four occupied Ukrainian territories, which Moscow claims would put them under Russia’s nuclear umbrella if they were to be attacked.
He once again made it clear this week that he was in full control of Russia’s nuclear arsenal, and would use it to defend Russian territory if threatened.
Speaking on Skabeyeva’s show on 1TV, military commentator Col. Mikhail Khodarenok said that despite a lack of active testing of nuclear weapons due to international prohibitions, Russian atomic bombs were ready to go.
‘As regards special nuclear combat units, due to the fact that we signed a lot of documents on the prohibition of nuclear weapons testing, nuclear warheads are not being detonated now to check their serviceability.
‘But at the same time maintenance work is carried out on them, their serviceability and readiness for operational use is checked’
Following his remarks, Skabeyeva joked ‘In other words the good news at the end of 2022 is that we are guaranteed to destroy [the West].’
He insisted: ‘We guarantee that our nuclear missile shield is not dilapidated and is in full working order and ready for immediate use.’
State TV receives daily orders from the Kremlin on what anti-Western messages to broadcast to the Russian population across the country’s 11 time zones.
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