A NUCLEAR armageddon will see “Russians go to heaven and the West banished to hell”, a Kremlin propagandist has said in a bizarre TV rant.
Andrey Lugovoy, a close associate of Vladimir Putin, who has been implicated in the murder of ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in the UK, recently made a chilling statement. Lugovoy claimed that Putin has the power to potentially bring about the end of human civilization with his advanced hypersonic nuclear weapons.
Lugovoy, 58, is wanted by the UK authorities for Litvinenko’s murder in London in 2006.
But the Kremlin dictator has repeatedly refused to extradite him.
The alleged killer appeared on Russian national TV to deliver a sick rant about Russia nuking the West.
Speaking on propaganda channel Tsargrad TV, Lugovoy bluntly said: “Given that there are nuclear weapons in the world, we should always prepare for the possibility of nuclear clashes, especially since we have just changed our nuclear doctrine.
“They’re hitting [Russian regions] Kursk, Bryansk. Tomorrow they’ll hit Moscow. We will have to make a move that will push things to the limit.”
The propagandist then went on to say Putin would destroy the entire world and “end the human race” in case of a nuclear war.
And that the West will go to hell.
He added: “[Nuke war] will be the end of human history. That’s what President Putin is talking about.
“We have two options. Either we agree that Russia is gone, and humanity lives and thrives.
“Or they will go to hell, as the president said, and we will go to heaven.”
A US intelligence report found that Lugovoy was directly linked to the killing of Litvinenko – and that it was personally signed off by Putin in 2006.
The assessment said: “The official British inquiry into Litvinenko’s murder concluded that Putin ‘probably approved’ it, based upon a review of physical evidence and decisionmaking on matters related to the security services.”
The Kremlin has always denied the allegations.
The assassination made headlines around the world and the case has since been explored in a number of documentaries as well as a 2023 ITV series.
Litvinenko: The assassination that shocked the world
ALEXANDER Litvinenko had been an officer with the Federal Security Service (FSB) – the successor to the KGB – but fled to Britain with his family to seek political asylum after criticising Russian President Vladimir Putin.
His murder was suspected to have been personally signed off by Putin, something the Kremlin has repeatedly denied.
The former Russian spy met Lugovoy at the Millennium Hotel in London’s Mayfair for a cup of tea.
But soon after the meeting, he fell extremely sick and began vomiting.
He was rushed to the hospital, but dude three weeks later.
It is believed Lugovoy slipped deadly radioactive polonium-210 into his cup of tea.
Before his death, the former KGB spy reported his own murder to the police, saying he had been assassinated on the orders of Putin.
He said: “This was done by the Russian secret service because I have knowledge of this system.
“I know that to kill a citizen of another country this order can be given only by one person. This person is the president of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin.”
A radioactive trail around London was also found by investigators.
Ex-Scotland Yard deputy commissioner Peter Clarke, who led the inquiry into the death and features in Channel 4 doc, believed this was a case of “state-sponsored murder”.
Russia refused to extradite Lugovoy and one of his accomplices to face trial in Britain.
Litvinenko’s death was dramatised for the 2023 ITVX series Litvinenko, with former Doctor Who star David Tennant playing the lead role.
The four episodes follow the group of detectives investigating the fatal poisoning.
The documentary features an interview with top Scotland Yard cop Clive Timmons who investigated the whistle-blower’s death in 2006.
This is not the first time Putin’s stooges have threatened the destruction of the West in bizarre TV rants.
Top Putin crony Dmitry Kiselyov warned that any bid by the West to “inflict a strategic defeat on Russia” would result in Armageddon.
He said that Putin will sink Britain under a nuclear tidal wave if Nato sends troops to Ukraine.
Kiselyov – a TV presenter who is also chief of Russia’s largest propaganda empire – said Putin would unleash Satan-2 and other deadly nuclear missiles.
The hardliner warned the West not to drive Putin into a corner.
Speaking on national television, Kiselyov said: “If NATO countries send their troops into Ukraine in order to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia, then the very moment about which Putin once said, ‘Why do we need the world, if there is no Russia in it?’ would come.
“Then everything [all types of missile] would be launched by us, in every direction – Sarmats, Yars, and Avangards.
“American decision-making centres and launchers on land and at sea are already in their sights.
“France as a nuclear power will have to be disarmed instantly.
“The British Isles will simply go underwater. We have all the required technology for this….but it’s better not to let things get to that point.”
