The head of Russia Today, Margarita Simonyan, on Russian television on Monday, proposed to destroy all civilian infrastructure, including power plants and nuclear plants in Ukraine, and leave people without electricity.

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  “In the territory that remained from Ukraine, which was not liberated, is there really no civil infrastructure? Power plants, nuclear power plants? There are still many infrastructure targets that can disable an enemy nation, what is left of it. It could be done quickly and easily. It can have a lasting effect on them and distract them from everything else. I and others are constantly asked: Why don’t we do this? There is no answer. Maybe it’s time to either do it or explain to people why we don’t. For example, I don’t understand,” said Margarita Simonyan.

Volodymyr Solovyov, for his part, says that “I have been addressing this for a long time.”

• “I think it’s time for tough measures,” he added.

• “The time has come either for tough measures or for answers that could satisfy our society,” Simonyan also says.

Russian propagandists also talked about what a total blackout in Ukraine due to Russia’s fault would mean.

• “We can get hysterical and ask for a power cut in Ukraine. Have you thought about what a blackout in Ukraine would cause? Where is it cold, hungry and there is no water? Will it bring us more friends there?” said military expert Oleksiy Leonkov.

To Solovyov’s question whether we need friends there, Leonkov said that “our compatriots are there.”

Solovyov adds that, first of all, “we will free our compatriots from Nazism, and then we will feed and warm them.”

Political scientist Dmytro Kulkov believes that the majority of Ukrainians, except for the Ukrainian government, are on the side of the United States. “In this sense, I am not a part of the Ukrainian people.”