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Vladimir Putin is preparing to put nuclear weapons into space, US intelligence sources have warned.

Britain and its Nato allies are waking up to cryptic reports about Russian advances on a new, space-based nuclear munition.

This would not be to drop a nuclear weapon onto Earth but rather to possibly use against satellites.

But if deployed, it could threaten extensive satellite networks, according to the US officials.

Head of the House intelligence committee, Republican congressman Mike Turner, has called for the Biden administration to declassify information on what he called a ‘serious national security threat’.

‘Vampire’ projectiles were unleashed on a shopping mall in Russia’s southern city of Belgorod. At least six people were killed, including one child, in the attack not far from the Ukrainian border. Regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on social media that 18 others were wounded, including five children (Picture: REUTERS)
‘I am requesting that president Biden declassify all information relating to this threat so that Congress, the Administration, and our allies can openly discuss the actions necessary to respond to this threat,’ Turner said.

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Fears are growing over what Putin may be planning in space (Picture: Getty)
Fears are growing over what Putin may be planning in space (Picture: Getty)
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ABC News cited unnamed sources as saying that the security threat the politician was referring to involved Russia’s potential deployment of a nuclear anti-satellite weapon in space.

Calling this ‘a big deal,’ one of the sources told the network: ‘It is very concerning and very sensitive.’

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Rep. Jim Himes, a Connecticut Democrat and the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, echoed that in his own statement, calling it ‘significant’ but ‘not a cause for panic’.

But Russian presidential spokesperson Peskov blasted the reports as ‘White House ploy’.
This comes as the Russian president said in an interview broadcast on Wednesday that he preferred Joe Biden to Donald Trump as US president.

He was asked by interviewer Pavel Zarubin who was ‘better for us’ out of Biden, a Democrat, and Trump, a Republican.

Putin, who is facing his own election in March, replied without hesitation: ‘Biden. He is a more experienced, predictable person, a politician of the old school.’

He added: ‘But we will work with any US president who the American people have confidence in.’

It was the first time Putin had publicly commented on the 2024 US election race in which Biden and Trump are expected to face each other for the second successive time.

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