A BRIT army chief says the British Army would be ready to "fight tonight" after a top North Korean general was blown up in a Storm Shadow attack as Putin warns the UK of nuclear armageddon. Senior officer Rob Magowan made the chilling statement to MPs as tensions between Russia and the West continue to spiral. 13 Video purported to show strikes above Dnipro in Ukraine early this morning 13 Robert Magowan says the British Army would be ready to 'fight tonight' Credit: Alamy 13 The army chief said that Britain's armed forced would be ready to fight their Russian counterparts "tonight" if mad Vladimir Putin were to invade another Eastern European nation.

The deputy chief of the British defense staff told the House of Commons defense committee: "If the British Army was asked to fight tonight, it would fight tonight. "I don't think anybody in this room should be under any illusion that if the Russians invaded Eastern Europe tonight, then we would meet them in that fight." It comes after a senior North Korean general was injured in a Ukrainian strike in Russia's Kursk region on Thursday in a Storm Shadow attack.

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