Overview

• Senator Dmitry Rogozin shared a map sourced from the UK’s Defence Industrial Strategy 2025 highlighting 23 defence-linked locations across all four nations.
• He warned the UK would become “deadly dangerous” and urged Russian oligarchs not to send their children to study in England.
• State TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov amplified the message, threatening Britain with Russia’s Poseidon underwater nuclear-capable drone.
• Russian commentators on state television also suggested detonating the SS Richard Montgomery wreck in the Thames estuary, which reportedly holds about 1,400 tonnes of explosives.
• News reports describe the threats as a public intimidation campaign with no independent evidence of moves toward operational targeting of the listed sites.