The UK is growing increasingly concerned about the possibility of war with Russia.

14:55, Thu, Dec 18, 2025 Updated: 15:00, Thu, Dec 18, 2025

Map showing Russia's targets in case of a war.

A map showing Russia's possible targets in Europe and the UK. (Image: FT/Daily Express)

Russia has trained its navy to target sites deep inside Europe, including three sites in the UK, using nuclear-capable missiles.

According to a report from the Financial Times, as many as 32 locations in Europe are targets for Russia’s naval fleets in the event of war.

Russia’s Northern Fleet would be expected to hit defence industrial targets, such as the submarine shipyard at Barrow-in-Furness in north-west England. A target near Hull may be an industrial site - it is marked with a smokestack.

It is also believed Russia’s capacity to strike across Europe means targets all over the continent would be at risk as soon as its army engaged with Nato forces in frontline countries such as the Baltic states and Poland, said analysts and former officials.

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Numerous UK defence-related sites as have been identified as targets for Vladimir Putin's missiles. Russian senator and war veteran, Dmitry Rogozin, who in the past served as deputy premier and head of the space agency, has previously warned that the UK could become "deadly dangerous".

Back in May, Rogozin also posted a map showing possible targets in the UK in response to former defence secretary Ben Wallace calling for "making Crimea uninhabitable and unviable from a Russian point of view".

The map shows 23 defence sites taken from the UK government's policy paper Defence Industrial Strategy 2025: Making Defence an Engine for Growth.

According to Nato’s calculations, countries in the alliance have less than 5 per cent of the air defence capacities required to protect the alliance’s eastern flank against a full-scale attack from Russia and Putin in June said Europe would be "more or less defenceless against Russian missile strikes.

Putin recently ordered exercises to rehearse the use of tactical nuclear weapons.

In June, Russia’s armed forces practised loading Soviet-era P-270 anti-ship cruise missiles on to a Tarantul-class corvette in Kaliningrad, where Nato officials say it stores an undeclared stockpile of tactical nuclear warheads.