DAILY MAIL | Published November 12, 2024
Vladimir Putin was so close to launching a nuke in Ukraine in October 2022 that Britain was preparing for the fallout, it is understood.
Former Prime Minister Liz Truss reportedly spent her final days in office examining weather maps and preparing for UK radiation cases after American spies raised concerns that Putin was seriously close to pressing the button.
The shocking details of how close the war came to a devastating escalation have been uncovered in an updated biography of Ms Truss, titled Out of the Blue.
The biography reports that the short-lived PM spent ‘numerous hours studying satellite weather data and wind directions’ over fears the ‘wrong weather patterns’ could have a ‘direct fall-out effect on Britain’.
It comes as Putin has deployed 50,000 Russian and North Korean troops in a bid to seize Kursk from Ukraine before Donald Trump takes office as US president.
The leading military commander in Ukraine said ‘tens of thousands of enemy soldiers’ have arrived to expel Kyiv‘s forces from the enclave, sparking concerns in the West of a serious escalation of the conflict by next month.
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INDEPENDENT | Published November 12, 2024
Vladimir Putin was so close to using nuclear weapons in October 2022 that Liz Truss spent the dying days of her premiership preparing for the potential fallout, an updated version of her biography has claimed.
The former prime minister reportedly spent her last days in office studying weather maps and preparing for cases of radiation poisoning in the UK amid US intelligence a strike was imminent.
Ms Truss had been told the Russian president was just hours from deploying a nuke, which Whitehall officials feared would hurl radioactive material into the atmosphere which could spread 1,700 miles from the blast, according to Out of the Blue, an unauthorised biography of the short-serving former PM.
An updated edition of the book, by journalists Harry Cole and James Heale, said Ms Truss spent “numerous hours studying satellite weather data and wind directions” over fears the “wrong weather patterns” could have a “direct fall-out effect on Britain”.
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