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Medvedev, Putin's second-in-command on the Russian Security Council, wrote in a post on social media platform X: "Sleep well, European partners!"
05:32, Thu, Apr 16, 2026 Updated: 05:33, Thu, Apr 16, 2026
Russia President Vladimir Putin (Image: Getty)
Russia has made a direct threat to strike targets across the UK that it believes is helping the Ukrainian effort against Moscow, but experts have named the 19 places considered "safe".
Russia and Ukraine have been in conflict since February 2022 after Putin's forces attacked their neighbour.
Russia's defence ministry issued the locations of what it alleges are production facilities supplying the Ukrainian armed forces with military equipment. Three of the addresses are located in London, Leicester and Suffolk, The Mirror reported.
The Russia defence ministry said: “The leadership of several European countries, amid mounting losses and a worsening shortage of manpower in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, decided to increase the production and supply of UAVs to Ukraine for strikes on Russian territory."
Aftermath of a Russian bomb attack in Sloviansk, Ukraine (file image) (Image: Getty)
"We regard this decision as a deliberate step leading to a sharp escalation of the military-political situation throughout Europe and the creeping transformation of these countries into Ukraine's strategic rear area.”
It warned that “terrorist attacks against Russia” could lead to “unpredictable consequences”.
A Senior Kremlin official Dmitry Medvedev warned leaders that the threat should be “taken literally.”
Medvedev, Putin's second-in-command on the Russian Security Council, wrote in a post on social media platform X: "Russian Defense Ministry’s statement must be taken literally: the list of European facilities which make drones & other equipment is a list of potential targets for the Russian armed forces. When strikes become a reality depends on what comes next. Sleep well, European partners!
The Russian defence ministry also named alleged production facilities in Germany, Denmark, The Netherlands, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Spain, Italy, Israel and Turkey.
The Daily Express previously reported that there is growing speculation over where the safest places to be in the UK are in the event World War 3 starts and noted that experts have shared the best places to visit, with a running theme being areas away from major army and naval bases as well as hugely populated cities.
Dmitry Medvedev with forces (file image) (Image: Getty)
These areas were considered the safest places to be in the event of a world case scenario:
- Cornwall
- Weymouth
- Folkestone
- Dover
- Margate
- Clacton-on-Sea
- Felixstowe
- Brixworth
- Bideford
- Aberystwyth
- Skegness
- Isle of Anglesey
- Barrow in Furness
- Lancaster
- Whitby
- Dumfries
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