A new hallucinatory moment occurred on Russian television: in the program, Ukraine was accused of “already” having a nuclear bomb, which it is preparing to detonate in order to justify the US entry into the war.

“There is already a thermonuclear charge in Mykolaiv that will be used in provocation,” says one of the guests of the “Meeting Place” program on the NTV channel.

Although NTV is less well-known compared to Rossiya-1 or Pervy Kanal, it is one of the most important television stations in Russia, owned by Gazprom Media, the media arm of the Russian energy giant.

Earlier in October, NTV showed shocking videos of terrorized Ukrainian civilians and dead bodies dumped in mass graves in a mini-report that was presented as an introduction to the “Meeting Place” program itself, which is presented in the form of a “debate.”

“It can be assumed that the explosion of that charge in the context of the constant assertions of NATO and the USA on the eve of that offensive or during that offensive [din Herson]so that it can be said that due to the fact that Russia suffers defeats, it struck the Ukrainian troops, which will end with tens of thousands of dead civilians,” the guest of the film set continues.

“This will allow the US to justify large-scale attacks on the territory, on our troops in these regions and on the territory of Russia. That is, to practically justify the US war against Russia,” he claims.

Russian nuclear threats

Russian television has constantly covered the prospect of Moscow’s use of nuclear weapons since the start of the “special military operation” on February 24, with nuclear rhetoric dangerously escalating at the end of February.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened several times over the past month that he will not hesitate to use the nuclear arsenal at his disposal to defend “Russian territory,” repeatedly threatening Dmitry Medvedev, the former president, about this. and the Prime Minister of Russia, who is currently the Vice President of the country’s Security Council.

But this appears to be the first time on Russian television that Ukraine is said to have nuclear weapons, which is a hallucination given that Kyiv gave up its nuclear arsenal, the third largest in the world, immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Union.

In fact, Russian propaganda seems to have gone into overdrive over the past week, as a misleading video message shared by Kirill Stremousov on Tuesday shows, in the context of Moscow preparing for another failure on the front, this time in Kherson. .

President Vladimir Putin declared martial law here on Wednesday, as he did in other Ukrainian territories he annexed in late September. But a second decree released by the Kremlin on Wednesday shows that Putin has de facto imposed martial law across Russia, leaving it up to local authorities to enforce it.

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