Russia tells traitors they face ‘GRAVE nervous disorder’ as it says 'you can't hide in UK'
RUSSIA has warned “traitors” in Britain they risk being KILLED in a torturous and slow death after the failed assassination attempt on former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury.
The TV presenter issued a thinly veiled threat
Kirill Kleymenov, a presenter on Russian state television Channel One issued a stark message for those who betrayed Russia, warning of death and disease.
He said: “I sympathise with any suffering and certainly not rejoice in it; what’s more, I don’t wish death on anyone.
“But purely for educational purposes for those who dream about a career, I’d like to issue a caution. The profession of traitor is a lot more dangerous than that of a drug courier.
“It’s very rare that those who choose it live out their days in peace and serenity.
Alcoholism and drug addiction, stress, grave nervous disorders and depression are the inevitable professional illnesses of the traitor
“Alcoholism and drug addiction, stress, grave nervous disorders and depression are the inevitable professional illnesses of the traitor.
“And as a consequence, heart attacks, strokes, car accidents and suicide after all.”
In the thinly-veiled threat on the Kremlin mouthpiece, he continued: “Whatever the reasons, whether you’re a professional traitor or you just hate your country in your free tunes I repeat no matter, don’t go to England.”
He explained that something “wasn’t right” and “people get poisoned, they die in helicopter crashes and fall out of windows in industrial quantities”.
It is thought he was referring to a number of oligarchs who sought refuge in England but came to a sticky end.
Mr Skripal, 66, and his 33-year-old daughter Yulia are fighting for their lives in hospital
Alexander Litvinenko, a Russian dissident was fatally poisoned in London with polonium-210 in November 2006.
The attack on
But Whitehall sources told the Times they take this as a confirmation of a Kremlin strategy.
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He told the BBC: “My own conclusion would be that for some reason the British territories are very dangerous for certain types of people.”
Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said the case is being treated as a “major incident involving attempted murder by administration of a nerve agent”, with
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has commented that the case had "echoes" of the death of Alexander Litvinenko and said the UK would respond "robustly" if it there was state involvement.
British troops are already in the Black Sea area as part of Nato’s new multinational force in Romania to counter Russia along its eastern flank and to check a growing Russian presence in the Black Sea following the Kremlin’s 2014 seizure of Crimea.
A Ministry Of Defence spokesman said: “British troops are already in Estonia and Poland as part of NATO's enhanced presence.
"There are 800 men and women in Estonia, leading the battle group.
"And in Poland, we have around 150 people making up part of an international battlegroup.
"In
He refused to comment on whether more troops would be deployed if the nerve gas assassination attempt was confirmed to be linked to Russia.