An ultra pro-Russian patriot has mocked Scott Morrison's plan to send Ukraine missiles, saying the Prime Minister is 'a complete fool' who has put Australia's national security at risk.
Simeon Boikov, who calls himself the 'Aussie Cossack', said Mr Morrison's pledge to fund missiles for Ukraine had made Australia a 'target' for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
On Tuesday, Mr Morrison pledged $70 million to buy military equipment and weapons for Ukraine as part of a co-ordinated Western effort to help its armed forces resist Russia's invasion.
'This is very serious,' Mr Boikov told Daily Mail Australia.
'We are on the verge of nuclear war. Putin is not mucking around.'
Simeon Boikov, who calls himself the Aussie Cossack, claims Scott Morrison has acted like 'a complete fool' funding missiles for Ukraine and provoking Vladimir Putin to retaliate against Australia
Boikov's wife of one year Katia (above) is a 'very staunch' supporter of Russia's actions and is 'disgusted' with the West's opposition to Putin and support for Ukraine which he says is being liberated not invaded
Mr Boikov, who has tens of thousands of followers on his multiple social media channels, said most Australians would be against Mr Morrison dragging Australia into a war.
'We shouldn't be poking the bear', he said.
'Putin will have won within a few days ... this is the end of the war (but) if other countries get involved it's World War III.
'I personally think Australia is the best country in the world ... but Putin is not bluffing, I can't stress that enough.'
Mr Boikov says his glamorous wife Katia is even more 'staunch ... and disgusted with the way the West' has turned against Russia. The pair married in a Russian Orthodox wedding last year.
Simeon Boikov (above in Cossack uniform in Russia) says NSW police have imposed a firearms prohibition order on him 'same as on bikies and criminals' which he is fighting to have dismissed
Simeon Boikov (above) says Australia should not be provoking Vladimir Putin by funding $70m of missiles and military equipment to Ukraine because the Russian President 'is not bluffing'
Six days since Putin began Russia's military offensive against Ukraine, Mr Boikov declared 'I am on war time' and 'on Moscow time' and said monitoring actions in Russia and Ukraine for his Australian audiences had left him with little sleep.
The 32-year-old construction professional, aspiring politician and founder of his patriotic Russian Australian Aussie Cossack movement, is keen for Australians to see the current crisis as he does, with Putin as a 'liberator' not an invader or 'occupier'.
With a St George ribbon marking Russia's victory over Germany in World War II pinned to his suit, Mr Boikov spoke exclusively with Daily Mail Australia at his bayside inner western apartment block
The one-time student at St Andrews Cathedral School and at Trinity Grammar, where he played in the second row and as a flanker in the rugby firsts, said he believed Mr Morrison was sabre rattling to appear strong going into a federal election.
'It's because he's so unpopular and seen as weak and incompetent,' Mr Boikov said.
Simeon Boikov (above, left) has more than 30,000 followers of his Telegraph channel posts which spruik his claims that Russia is liberating Ukraine rather than invading the country
Simeon Boikov's Aussie Cossack movement employs the double-headed eagle as one of its symbols, and he is currently on a high alert war footing as the situation in Ukraine continues
Boikov says that Putin 'is not bluffing' and that Australian PM Scott Morrison is foolish to provoke the Russian President by promising to fund missiles for Ukraine
'It's a joke. He's way out of his pay grade and should stick to the floods.
On Tuesday Mr Morrison announced Australia was pledging $105 million to help Ukraine, including $70 million in military equipment.
'We're talking missiles, we're talking ammunition, we're talking supporting them in their defence of their homeland in Ukraine,' he said.
'I'm not going to go into the specifics of that because I don't plan to give the Russian government a heads-up about what's coming their way, but I can assure them it's coming your way.'
Mr Boikov said it was foolish to get involved in 'financing death, destruction, tragedy and bloodshed (in Ukraine)'.
'Is it a PR stunt?' he said.
Mr Boikov claims to be a student of Russian and European history who believes 'Nazi' inspired battalions have been waging war against Russian speakers in Ukraine, since a political overthrow of government in 2014.
He also claims Ukrainian nationalist battalions, descended from local swastika and 'SS' wearing divisions from the second world war, still operate in modern Ukraine.
This argument, also used by Putin to justify the invasion, has been widely debunked by world leaders and experts as Russian propaganda
Despite admitting 'a lot of crazies' follow him', Mr Boikov said 98 per cent of his serious followers believe Australia 'should not be committing missiles or financing a war against Russia'.
He described the West's campaign to get behind Ukraine and oppose Russia as 'virtue signalling" and derided 'Instagram models .... who suddenly overnight become
