The Russian government has issued a chilling warning to the West threatening to unleash its "entire arsenal" of weapons onto London if it loses the war in Ukraine.
The Kremlin even threatened to fire nuclear missiles over the UK, US, Germany and Ukraine if Vladimir Putin doesn't get his way in the war.
Dmitry Medvedev - a close Putin ally and hawkish government official who served as president from 2008 to 2012 - said Moscow is prepared to unleash war on their enemies if they were defeated in the bloody war.
Medvedev said the West would weaken Russia if they were forced to return to the 1991 borders by losing to Ukraine.
The Putin ally said: "Attempts to return Russia to the borders of 1991 will lead to only one thing.
"Towards a global war with Western countries using the entire strategic arsenal of our state.
"In Kyiv, Berlin, London, Washington."
Hypersonic nuclear missiles would also strike "all other beautiful historical places that have long been included in the flight targets of our nuclear triad."
Medvedev continued "Will we have the courage to do this if the disappearance of a thousand-year-old country, our great Motherland, is at stake, and the sacrifices made by the people of Russia over the centuries will be in vain?
"The answer is obvious."
Russia has almost 6,000 nuke warheads at Putin's disposal.
Medvedev suggested Kyiv and the West should allow Putin to have the parts of Ukraine he believes belong to Russia.
Otherwise, Russia would have to take the matter into their own hands "with maximum losses for the enemy".
"Like in Avdiivka. Our warriors are heroes!" He added.
Medvedev, deputy head of the Russian security council which controls the war, hit out at "snotty Anglo-American fosterlings" who oppose Putin.
He hit out at the position of the head of the UK Ministry of Defence, Grant Shapps, who said that "the world cannot afford a Russian victory".
"Let's imagine for a moment that Russia lost, and "Ukraine with its allies" won.
"What would such a victory be like for our enemies - the neo-Nazis and their Western sponsors?
"Well, as has been said many times, a return to the borders of 1991."
He referred to the year the USSR fell, shrinking the Russian territory borders when former member states gained independence.
Medvedev then said if the West got its way, there would be a "direct and irreversible collapse of present-day Russia" including its newly invaded territories.
He blamed the West for trying to stir a "violent civil war" within Russian borders which would erase the country from the world maps.
"Tens of millions of victims. The death of our future. The collapse of everything in the world," Medvedev wrote.
He asked: "Do these idiots really believe that the people of Russia will swallow such a division of their country?
"That we will all think something like this: 'Well, alas, this happened. They won. Today's Russia has disappeared.
"It's a pity, of course, but we must continue to live in a collapsing, dying country since a nuclear war is much more terrible for us than the death of our loved ones, our children, our Russia...'?"
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