A television declaration by former Russian General, an MP that currently sits on Moscow’s Defence Committee, Andrey Gurulyov, has resonated in sections of the international media (February 13, 2023) with ‘flash back’ splashed everywhere about the unputdownable statement published mainly in the Independent in London on June 25, 2022.
‘It’s crystal clear that the threat to the world comes from the Anglo-Saxons,’ Andrey Gurulyov said
London will be the first strategic NATO target to be hit by Russian missiles should a third war war erupt, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin has claimed.
Speaking on Russian state TV, Andrey Gurulyov, an MP who sits on Moscow’s defence committee, described how a possible full-scale invasion of NATO’s Baltic state members would work.
Mr Gurulyov, a former military commander and member of the pro-Putin United Russia party, said: “We’ll destroy the entire group of the enemy’s space satellites during the first air operation.
“No one will care if they are American or British; we would see them all as NATO.
“Second, we’ll mitigate the entire system of anti-missile defence, everywhere and 100 per cent. Third, we certainly won’t start from Warsaw, Paris or Berlin. The first to be hit will be London.
“It’s crystal clear that the threat to the world comes from the Anglo-Saxons.”
He said an invasion was the only way to prevent the West from blockading Kaliningrad, a Russian semi-exclave between Lithuania and Poland.
Gurulyov said Western Europe would be “cut off from power supplies” – which he said would also be destroyed – and “immobilised.”
“In the third stage, I shall see what the USA will tell Western Europe on continuing their fight in the cold, without food and electricity,” he continued. “I wonder how they [the US] will manage to stay aside.”
“This is the rough plan, and I deliberately leave out certain moments because they are not to be discussed on TV.”
The Putin ally’s threats come as Russia’s war enters its fifth month, leading to concerns in the West of “fatigue” over the ongoing and deadly conflict.
Yesterday, Boris Johnson warned that pressure would grow to coerce the Ukrainians into making a “bad peace” because of economic stresses sparked by the conflict.
Asked at the high commissioner’s residence in Kigali what he meant by concerns of Ukraine fatigue, Mr Johnson said: “I know it is tough. I know it is tough in the UK. I know the cost of food has gone up. Everybody is looking at this and too many countries are saying this is a European war that is unnecessary.
“It is an economic problem that we don’t need, so the pressure will grow to encourage – coerce, maybe – the Ukrainians into a bad peace.
“I think the risk is that people will fail to see that it is vital to stand up against aggression. If Putin gets away with aggression in Ukraine, if he gets away with the naked conquest of other people’s territory, then the read across for every single country here is absolutely dramatic: the collapse of the international system. And it would be a long-term economic disaster.”
This report was as published on Saturday 25 June, 2022 by Independent in UK: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/vladimir-putin-ally-london-bomb-world-war-3-b2108980.html
During Gurulyov’s appearance on the Solovyev show, the former Russian general said NATO “made their move” by supplying weapons to Ukraine to fight against Russian invasion forces. “Now it’s our turn. How will we respond to these challenges? We should respond the same way.”
In the reminder published on Monday 13 February 2023 by The Truth Seeker (https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=265009) and Tap News Wire (https://tapnewswire.com/2023/02/flashback-russian-lawmaker-names-first-city-russia-will-strike-if-world-war-iii-begins/), the was the addition made to the report as follows:
This is not the first time Gurulyov has alluded to war between Russia and NATO. During a June 17 segment on the Russian state-run program “Evening with Vladimir Solovyev”, Gurulyov said the Russian military is prepared for a “big colosal war” with NATO.
During Gurulyov’s appearance on the Solovyev show, the former Russian general said NATO “made their move” by supplying weapons to Ukraine to fight against Russian invasion forces. “Now it’s our turn. How will we respond to these challenges? We should respond the same way.”
Gurulyov said Russian forces still have much of Ukraine left to subdue before its forces move far enough west to reach Ukraine’s border with Poland. He added that Russia’s military production is increasing and once Russian troops reach the western edge of Ukraine, “We have to consider every option up to a big colossal war and be ready for it.”
“Are we ready?” Gurulyov added. “We’re ready.”
