The Putin propaganda machine has threatened that the admission of the British armed forces being present in Ukraine amounts to a “casus belli” for a nuclear strike on the UK. Kremlin-funded state TV seized on the death of UK paratrooper George Hooley, 28, in an explosion behind friendly lines while observing Ukrainian forces testing a defensive capability.

Leading Kremlin propagandist hawk, Vladimir Solovyov, told viewers on his nightly show: “Now a nuclear strike on Britain is inevitable….” Historian Andrey Sidorov, another Putin cheerleader, said: “This incident should be considered a casus belli, when the British Ministry of Defence officially acknowledged the death of its military personnel on active duty on Ukrainian territory.” He demanded the Russian foreign ministry summon British

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