Russian guests on Russian state television shocked the show’s moderators by saying that Ukrainians cannot be “crushed” and that Moscow’s war in Ukraine is “brutal and sadistic.” “It is absurd to expect that the people of Ukraine will surrender or demand the capitulation of their government because they are forced to cook ham on candles.”

A Russian man said on state television that Putin’s war in Ukraine is “brutal and sadistic”Photo: video shooting

A debate on Russian television led to moderators telling a guest that he “went down the wrong path” after he claimed that Putin’s war in Ukraine was “cruel and sadistic”.

  • “The problem is that international law was violated, the territorial integrity of a sovereign state was violated on February 24. These borders of the sovereign state that were violated were not the borders of Russia. That’s about it. So far, there are no signs that anyone is ready to make any deal with Russia.
  • A bunch of middlemen is still just a bunch, that’s all. For Ukraine, territorial concessions are not only impossible, but also inadmissible.
  • If we accept the thesis of Volodymyr Volodymyrovych that we are one people, perhaps not in the national sense, since we are clearly different peoples, but only in the sense that we were the peoples of the former USSR, then in this situation it is futile to expect that the people of Ukraine will – they will surrender or that they will ask their government to surrender because they are forced to cook ham by candlelight. These are former soviets. Geography aside, these former Soviet countries survived the blockade of Leningrad. They are full of hate. For them, this is their national war. It is impossible to crush them,” says Oleksandr Sytin, introduced as a historian and political scientist.

Another guest, presented as a sociologist, Oleksiy Roschyn, says:

  • “I don’t understand what order we can talk about when we destroy their power plants and infrastructure in Ukraine. This is cruelty and sadism, a war against the civilian population. This war is against the people. As a citizen, I am responsible, but I did not approve of the bombing of Ukrainian power plants.”

The answer of one of the moderators, Andrii Norkin: “Let’s imagine that we have heard enough of your manifesto, do you have something more substantial to say? I understand that you wanted to return to television, but I’m afraid you didn’t go down the right path. Nobody cares what you say.”