{"id":1499302,"date":"2022-06-01T08:15:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T12:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1499302"},"modified":"2022-06-01T08:15:35","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T12:15:35","slug":"russian-official-threatens-nuclear-strike-on-u-s-wipe-out-both-coasts-with-4-satan-2-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russian-official-threatens-nuclear-strike-on-u-s-wipe-out-both-coasts-with-4-satan-2-missiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Official Threatens Nuclear Strike On U.S., Wipe Out Both Coasts With 4 \u2018Satan-2\u2019 Missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussian-official-threatens-nuclear-strike-on-u-s-wipe-out-both-coasts-with-4-satan-2-missiles%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1499302&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A Russian official threatened nuclear war against the U.S. for providing support to Ukraine, claiming that four of Russia\u2019s new intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) could decimate both of America\u2019s coasts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will tell you absolutely competently that to destroy the entire the East Coast of the United States, two Sarmat missiles are needed,\u201d Alexei Zhuravlev, a member of Russia\u2019s parliament, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/31\/russian-alexei-zhuravlev-threatens-us-destruction-with-missiles\/\">told<\/a> Russian state television.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the same goes for the West Coast,\u201d he added. \u201cFour missiles, and there will be nothing left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zhuravlev referenced a report from CBS News earlier this year that said that a nuclear strike on New York City would yield a mushroom cloud that rise above the city\u2019s tallest buildings, to which Zhuravlev scoffed, \u201cthe mushroom [cloud] would be visible from Mexico.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin said back in April that his military had successfully launched the new ICBM, adding that the new weapon would \u201creliably ensure Russia\u2019s security in the face of external threats, and will provide food for thought to those who in the heat of frenzied aggressive rhetoric try to threaten our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2022\/04\/20\/satan-2-icbm\/\"> reported<\/a> that the RS-28 Sarmat, dubbed the \u201cSatan-2\u201d missile, was designed to replace the country\u2019s outdated Soviet-era Voevoda missile. The Satan-2 \u201cis considered Russia\u2019s most powerful ICBM: a super-heavy, thermonuclear-armed intercontinental-range ballistic missile,\u201d the report added.<\/p>\n<p>Zhuravlev\u2019s threat against the U.S. comes as the Biden administration has supplied Ukraine with billions of dollars of weapons to repel Russia\u2019s invasion of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The threat comes on the heels of a new announcement from the administration that it will send Ukraine the most advanced weapons system that it has supplied to the Eastern European country through its first three months of war with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Democrat President Joe Biden made the announcement in an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/31\/opinion\/biden-ukraine-strategy.html\">op-ed<\/a>\u00a0published in The New York Times on Tuesday afternoon, saying that the U.S. will provide advanced rocket systems and munitions to Ukraine \u201cthat will enable them to more precisely strike key targets on the battlefield in Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) that the U.S. is sending is a mobile rocket launcher that can strike targets from 40 to over 300 miles away, depending on the type of rocket it is outfitted with,\u201d Politico reported. \u201cThe rockets that the administration has decided to send are on the shorter end, reaching up to 48 miles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, a senior administration official later\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/31\/us\/politics\/biden-ukraine-rockets.html\">said<\/a>\u00a0that the weapons system was only promised to Ukraine after the U.S. received \u201cdirect assurances\u201d from Ukraine\u2019s leaders that it would not be used to strike targets inside Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Russian official threatened nuclear war against the U.S. for providing support to Ukraine, claiming that four of Russia\u2019s new intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) could decimate both of America\u2019s coasts. \u201cI will tell you absolutely competently that to destroy the entire the East Coast of the United States, two Sarmat missiles are needed,\u201d Alexei Zhuravlev, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1499321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1499302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1499302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1499321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}