A top Kremlin propagandist has launched an extraordinary on-air tirade against the UK, claiming the country could be “swallowed by the depths of the sea” while boasting that Ukraine’s army would collapse within a month if US support were cut. Vladimir Solovyov, one of Russian state television’s most prominent hosts and a fiercely loyal mouthpiece for Vladimir Putin, issued the menacing warning during a broadcast of his programme, Full Contact. The explosive outburst, translated by the watchdog group Russian Media Monitor, came as Solovyov dismissed Europe’s military capabilities and mocked British efforts to oppose Russian aggression.
Referring to reports that the UK intends to “actively counteract Russia, creating threats for it,” the presenter sneered at Britain’s geographic size and vulnerability. Solovyov declared: “This is being said by an island that could be quite easily erased off the face of the Earth and swallowed by the depths of the sea”.
He went on to accuse British leaders of living in denial over the danger posed by Moscow. He added: “But they believe this will never happen, because they’re certain, living in their world of illusions, just like [Volodymyr] Zelenskyand the Ukrainian junta,” which he said was “corrupt, rotten and dying before our very eyes”.
Earlier in the broadcast, Solovyov claimed that the conflict in Ukraine was merely “a small episode” in a broader struggle for a “new global world order”. He argued that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky would be abandoned by Washington and boasted that US President Donald Trump could end Kyiv’s resistance with “just three phone calls”.
Outlining his scenario, Solovyov claimed the first call would be to tech billionaire Elon Musk to restrict Ukraine’s military use of commercial Starlink terminals, the second to US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to halt all American weapons deliveries and permissions, and the third to CIA Director John Ratcliffe to cut off all intelligence sharing.
“That’s it,” Solovyov sneered. “After this, the Ukrainian army dies within one month. It will simply cease to exist, disappear, evaporate.”
Solovyov also dismissed any suggestion that Moscow would compromise on territory during peace talks, warning: “There won’t be peace until our conditions are met”. Echoing official Kremlin talking points, Solovyov added: “We always said we didn’t start this war, but we finished it. Why did you suddenly decide we will stop? We won’t give up one metre of our constitutional lands”.
Born in Moscow in 1963, Solovyov is one of the highest-profile figures in Russia’s state-controlled media apparatus. Best known as the host of Evening with Vladimir Solovyov and Moscow. Kremlin. Putin on the state broadcaster Rossiya 1, he has spent over a decade promoting Kremlin narratives and fiercely attacking Western democracies. Despite once expressing scepticism toward Russian military intervention in Ukraine prior to 2014, Solovyov has become one of Putin’s most vocal cheerleaders following the annexation of Crimea – a role for which he was awarded state honours by the Russian president.
Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Solovyov has frequently used his daily television and radio broadcasts to call for nuclear strikes against NATO members, including repeated threats aimed at Britain over its supply of long-range weapons to Kyiv. His prominent role in spreading state disinformation has led to personal sanctions from both the UK and the European Union, including the seizure of his luxury villas on Italy’s Lake Como.
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