Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of Russia Today, also claimed on Sunday that a Ukrainian drone fell near her childhood home.
Posting to Telegram, she said: “Tonight, an attack drone fell right in front of our family home in Adler, where I and my mother grew up, and where my relatives and their small children still live.
“The goals are ever further away, the stakes are ever higher, the nuclear ultimatum becomes increasingly uncontested.”
Her comment comes amid a torrent of saber-rattling by Russian pundits and politicians who have raised the specter of nuclear war over and over since Putin launched his February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
The comments come as ex-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warned the West of a “third world war” while earlier this month another propagandist appeared to suggest Russia could not win the war without nuclear weapons.
Vladimir Solovyov’s comments were prompted by the biggest drone attack against Russia since the war began. Ukraine now strikes targets inside Russia on a regular basis.
Physicist Mikhail Kovalchuk – said to be close to Putin – suggested Russia test one of its nukes to scare the West.
The most recent nuclear threat came amid drone strikes over the weekend including one which reportedly damaged a Russian cruise missile factory in Smolensk.
