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Russian TV pushing scenarios of missile strikes on European countries may stretch credibility, but also show the threats of the Ukraine war are both hyperbole and hypersonic.

Hosts and panelists on Russian state television have always peddled anti-western rhetoric but the discussions justifyingVladimir Putin‘s invasion of Ukraine have taken a more apocalyptic turn.

Last week, on the Russian program60 Minutes, lawmakerAleksey Zhuravlyov boastedabout the nation’s successful test of a nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) as he railed against British supportof Kyiv’s forces.

As a graphic showed Paris, London and Berlin being destroyed in 200 seconds or less if the weapon were fired from the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, Zhuravlyov said, “one Sarmat missile and the British Isles will be no more.”

©Getty ImagesA Russian Yars ballistic nuclear missiles on mobile launchers roll through…