Financial Times: Russia has targeted 32 targets, including Bulgaria, for a nuclear missile strike

Secret Russian documents reveal that the Kremlin had a detailed list of important targets in Europe to be hit by nuclear missiles from the Russian navy. This is published in today’s issue of the Financial Times. The secret documents were prepared between 2008 and 2014. They clearly show Russia’s concept of a preemptive nuclear strike against the enemy.

An impressive fact, in addition to targets in Germany, Great Britain and France, is to pay special attention to Bulgaria, together with Romania and Turkey. On the map published by the publication, it is clearly visible on the right that Bulgaria is a special target for nuclear strikes by Russia.

Russia has trained its navy to attack targets deep in Europe with missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads in the event of a potential conflict with NATO.
Maps of targets as far away as the west coast of France and Barrow-in-Furness in Britain were detailed in a presentation to officials ahead of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The Financial Times previously reported from the same set of 29 classified Russian military documents that Moscow was repeating the use of tactical nuclear weapons in the early stages of a conflict with a major world power.

The latest revelations show how Russia has been anticipating a conflict with the West reaching far beyond its NATO border, planning a series of major strikes in Western Europe . The documents were shown to the Financial Times by Western sources.
Russian officials emphasize the advantages of using nuclear strikes at an early stage.
The presentation also shows that Russia has retained the ability to carry nuclear weapons on surface ships, a capability that experts believe poses a significant additional threat to escalation or incidents.

The document notes the navy’s “high maneuverability” which allows it to conduct “sudden and preemptive strikes” and “massive missile strikes … from multiple directions.” He said nuclear weapons were “as a rule” intended to be used “in conjunction with other means of destruction” to achieve Russia’s goals.
Analysts familiar with the documents believe they are consistent with NATO’s assessment of the threat of long-range missile strikes by the Russian navy and the speed with which Russia could use nuclear weapons.

The maps, created for demonstration purposes and not for operational use, show an example of 32 NATO targets in Europe for the Russian naval fleet.
William Alberke, a former NATO official who now works at the Stimson Center, said the examples revealed represented a small fraction of “hundreds, if not thousands, of targets mapped throughout of Europe, including military and critical infrastructure sites. “
Russia’s ability to strike across Europe means sites across the continent would be at risk as soon as its military comes into conflict with NATO forces in frontline states such as the Baltic states. and Poland, according to analysts and former officials.

The leaked secret documents clearly show Russia’s “love” for us. Their ferocious intentions to make us the target of a nuclear strike date back to before the annexation of Crimea. Much later, Russia included us in the list of enemy states, and in its military doctrine called us an enemy, because we are part of NATO.
This secret strategy of the Kremlin towards Bulgaria explains the aggressive hybrid war being waged against our country, as well as the hundreds of existing declarations to they treat us as an enemy country, regardless of the despicable and humble behavior of the native Russophiles and Putinists.

Translation: Faktor.bg