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During last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that his country would target the U.S if it places nuclear-capable missiles across Europe. Now, Russian state TV has published a list of potential U.S targets that Russia designed to hit if nuclear war breaks out. The broadcast was aired on Sunday evening. It was also said that Russia will be able to hit these targets in just 5 minutes after deploying its new hypersonic missiles.

The Pentagon was also listed among the supposed targets. The TV presenter Dmitry Kiselyov is a Russian journalist whom Putin named to head the Russian state news agency Rossiya Segodnya in 2013. He is known to use bellicose language in his programs. The program aired after Putin used a press conference last Wednesday to warn that Russia is ready for a second Cuban missile crisis and would use hypersonic missiles against the U.S, and its NATO allies. But the Kremlin’s official line has been slightly less threatening than Kiselyov’s broadcast.

Putin said he doesn’t plan to deploy new missiles in Europe unless the U.S does so first. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin’s comments regarding a potential military conflict with the United States were hypothetical. Peskov informed journalists during a press conference, he said, “The president said that if our country is under threat and intermediate- and shorter-range missiles are deployed near its borders, a proportionate response will have to be made and our missiles targeted not only at the launchers but at the territories where the center of decision-making is located”.

He added, “Please remember that the president did not mention a single geographic name in this connection”. Peskov refused to comment on Kiselyov’s broadcast. He pointed out that “the Kremlin does not intervene in the editorial policies of our television channels, even government-run ones”. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the U.S will leave the treaty due to Moscow isn’t in compliance. The decision has sparked fears of an arms race.