Ukraine on Sunday called the Russian state broadcaster RT (Russia Today) an instigator of genocide after the moderator said that Ukrainian children who considered Russians to be occupiers during the Soviet Union should have been drowned, Agerpres writes.
In the show, which aired last week, RT host Anton Krasovskyi said this that those children who criticized Russia should be “thrown directly into the river with a strong current.”
Krasovsky, a pro-war commentator for a Russian TV channel that has been sanctioned by the European Union, was commenting on a story by Russian science fiction writer Sergei Lukyanenko about the first time he visited Ukraine in the 1980s, when his children said they would have a better life if Moscow did not occupy their country.
“They had to be drowned in the Tysyn,” answered Krasovsky, referring to the Tysza River, which flows through Transcarpathia. “Those children should have been drowned, drowned!” he said, adding, “Alternatively, they could have been put in huts and burned,” alluding to the fact that many of the houses in the area are made of wood.
In a short excerpt of the interview that was shared on social media, Krasovsky mocked reports that Russian soldiers raped elderly Ukrainian women during the invasion.
Dmytro Kuleba: “Aggressive incitement to genocide has nothing to do with freedom of speech”
“Governments that have not yet banned RT should read this excerpt,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba responded on Sunday on Twitter, which included a link to this excerpt from the RT interview.
“Aggressive incitement to genocide (we will prosecute this person) has nothing to do with freedom of speech. Ban RT all over the world!”, the Ukrainian minister urged.
Governments that have not yet banned RT should review this passage. That’s what you’re betting on when you allow RT to work in your countries. Aggressive incitement to genocide (we will prosecute this man for this) that has nothing to do with freedom of speech. Ban RT worldwide! https://t.co/xJC371rqyg
— Dmytro Kuleba (@DmytroKuleba) October 23, 2022
Russian state television, which is heavily controlled by the Kremlin, actively supports Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The hosts regularly dismissed reports of war crimes by Russian forces, and many used airtime to call on Russian President Vladimir Putin to take an even more aggressive approach to the invasion.
The Kremlin denies that its military committed crimes in Ukraine, Reuters reports.
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