Russian TV presenter Volodymyr Solovyov caused a wave of irony on social media after he said that the Israeli army’s tactics against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip would be “absolutely unacceptable” for the Russian armed forces.

“If you want to see brutality, watch how the Israeli army fights! If you want to understand the difference between a special military operation and a war, look at how the Israeli army is currently leveling, simply leveling, the Gaza Strip. I cut off his water, light, everything – using methods that would be absolutely unacceptable for us,” Solovyov shouted in his last broadcast.

“We are not waging such a war. Israel does it this way. This does not mean that Israel is right with its methods of waging war,” says Solovyov, who has repeatedly said on his shows that he is Jewish.

His new comments came after Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said on Monday that Israel was imposing a “total siege” on Gaza: “There is no electricity, no food, no water, no fuel.” said Gallant.

On Tuesday, the UN warned Israel that such a siege, accompanied by a blockade, is against international law.

However, Solovyov’s comments about the “unacceptable” way of waging war caused a considerable ironic reaction in social networks, given Moscow’s attempts to paralyze Ukraine’s energy system last winter and numerous attacks on civilians by its army.

The latest of them, a missile attack on the village of Groza in the Kharkiv region, became the second largest number of civilians killed since the beginning of the Russian invasion, after the attack on the Mariupol drama theater last March.

Solovyov was called a “shameless clown” after his comments about the war in Israel

“They (non-Russians) don’t have the means to turn off the electricity in Ukraine, because if they could, they would do it 100 times over,” a Twitter user noted in a post by BBC journalist Francis Scarr.

Solovyov “really has no shame,” emphasizes another.

“He literally described what Russia has been doing for almost two years. What a clown!” another netizen exclaims.

“Good marketing – selling failure (of Russian troops) as success,” wrote another Twitter user.

Others mentioned stories on Russian television in which various officials and propagandists called last winter to turn Ukraine into an uninhabitable territory for civilians.

Solovyov himself in his broadcasts called for atrocities against Ukrainians, in particular for the complete destruction of Kyiv by the Russian armed forces:

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