An Irish politician has called for a diplomatic response to Moscow after fake footage on Russian state television showed nuclear weapons destroying Ireland and Britain

During a segment on Russia’s Channel One, presenter Dmitry Kiselyov was describing a nuclear attack as a graphic showed the islands of Ireland and Britain being wiped off the map.

“The island is so small that only one Sarmat missile is enough to sink it once and for all,” Kiselyov said Sunday as he boasted about the nuclear-capable weapon that Russia tested last week.

Kiselyov also said that a Poseidon nuclear underwater drone, an experimental Russian weapon, “could plunge the British Isles into the depths of the sea”.

Although Ireland was not mentioned in the segments, the graphic shows the island destroyed along with Great Britain

Fianna Fáil, MEP for Ireland South, Billy Kelleher, said the Irish government should summon Russian Ambassador Yury Filatov to express “our absolute disgust at the [Russian] Transmission.”

“It is a threat that advocates violence against Ireland and that is totally unacceptable. It’s pretty gross,” Kelleher said.

Russia’s Channel One has been pushing the Kremlin’s narratives about Vladimir Putin’s all-out invasion of Ukraine, and Kiselyov is considered one of the state’s key propagandists.

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