A member of the State Duma proposes to detonate a nuclear bomb over the Russian Federation. This was proposed by the head of RT Simonyan last year

State Duma deputy from the ruling United Russia party Andriy Kolesnyk suggests detonating a nuclear bomb on the territory of the Russian Federation. He motivated his proposal by the fact that, in his opinion, many foreign politicians began to forget about the threat posed by nuclear weapons. Therefore, the deputy believes, Russia should remind the world about this danger.

“We need to make a nuclear explosion somewhere, at some training ground. We have a nuclear test ban now, but maybe people should see what it all really leads to, it’s worth hearing. If the moratorium is lifted, maybe humanity will think about it,” said Kolesnyk in a conversation with the Lenta.ru publication loyal to the Russian authorities, the Russian service of the Moscow publication The Moscow Times drew attention.

In mid-August, the Russian propaganda agency “RIA Novosti”, citing an anonymous source, spread information about the alleged preparation of an attack by Ukraine on nuclear power plants in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation (the city of Kurchatov) and the occupied Zaporizhzhia region (in Energodar). In response, Ukraine accused Russia of spreading false information.

Last year, the head of RT, Margarita Simonyan, already expressed the idea of ​​detonating a nuclear bomb “somewhere over Siberia”. In October 2023, she said: “Dear and respected ex-partners, by calling a spade a spade, you are waging war on us, and we are forced to wage war on you, with all the consequences. And for this it is not necessary that even, God bless him, Zhirynovsky demanded to hunt around Washington together… One intelligent person here told me something that I did not even guess about and did not know… If it is done hundreds of kilometers away on our own territory, somewhere over Siberia, a thermonuclear explosion, then nothing terrible will happen on earth.

Neither nuclear winter, which everyone is afraid of, nor terrible radiation, which will kill everyone around, and those who will not be killed will die within ten years from oncology – none of this. And all radio electronics, all satellites, this camera that I am shooting on, the phone that is next to me will be disabled… And we will return with you to the year 1993 – wired phones, “two pennies” in the payphone… I’ll tell you: it was a wonderful life, it’s true, I’m even happy.”

At that time, the Russian President’s spokesman Dmytro Peskov responded to the RT editor-in-chief’s statement. He stated that Simonyan does not work in the Russian authorities and does not reflect the official position of the Kremlin.