@@ -1,1 +1,1 @@ - +[https://www.thetimes.co.uk/search?source=nav-desktop&q=Vladimir Vladimir] will launch an all-out on the West rather than accept defeat in Ukraine, 's chief propagandists have declared, in just the latest chilling threat coming from Moscow.<br>Margarita Simonyan, editor of state broadcaster and [https://www.rtnewstoday.com/ RT News Today] one of the Kremlin's highest-profile mouthpieces, declared on TV last night that the idea of Putin pressing the red button is 'more probable' than the idea that he will allow Russia to lose the war.<br>'Either we lose in Ukraine,' she said, 'or the Third World War starts.<br><br>I think World War Three is more realistic, knowing us, knowing our leader. <br>'The most incredible outcome, that all this will end with a nuclear strike, seems more probable to me than the other course of events.<br>'This is to my horror on one hand,' she told a panel of experts shifting [https://www.cbsnews.com/search/?q=nervously nervously] in their seats, 'but on the other hand, it is what it is. We will go to heaven, while they will simply croak... We're all going to die someday.'<br>Simonyan's calm imagining of nuclear holocaust is just the latest threat issued from the top levels of the Russian state, after [https://www.thetimes.co.uk/search?source=nav-desktop&q=fellow%20propagandist fellow propagandist] Vladimir Solovyov, foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, and Putin himself issued threats in the last 48 hours.<br>The US and UK have dismissed such rhetoric as bluster but the increasing frequency of the threats [https://www.search.com/web?q=coupled coupled] with the failures of Russia's military will raise fears that a Cold War-style standoff is now a realistic possibility before the war in Ukraine ends.<br>It comes after Russia successfully test-launched its latest nuclear missile - Sarmat 2 - last week, with Putin boasting it can strike targets anywhere on earth and cannot be stopped by any current missile defences.