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Video shows the moment: Bizarre Putin production unexpectedly breaks off on state TV

2022-03-19T05:26:20.067Z


Video shows the moment: Bizarre Putin production unexpectedly breaks off on state TV Created: 03/19/2022, 06:18 By: Kathrin Reikowski A TV broadcast of Vladimir Putin's stadium speech in the middle of the Ukraine war suddenly breaks off. On the Internet, reasons other than a technical error are suspected. Update from March 18, 5:27 p.m .: There is also speculation in Russia about the abrupt ca


Video shows the moment: Bizarre Putin production unexpectedly breaks off on state TV

Created: 03/19/2022, 06:18

By: Kathrin Reikowski

A TV broadcast of Vladimir Putin's stadium speech in the middle of the Ukraine war suddenly breaks off.

On the Internet, reasons other than a technical error are suspected.

Update from March 18, 5:27 p.m

.: There is also speculation in Russia about the abrupt cancellation of Putin’s speech on Russian state TV.

Many people write on social networks that they are deeply shocked.

Some reactions also showed concerns about the health of the 69-year-old Kremlin boss.

Other reactions are joking.

"The best joke: The program was abruptly interrupted because Putin accidentally said the word 'fight'!" wrote the spokeswoman for the imprisoned Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny, Kira Jarmysch, on Twitter.

dpa correspondents suspect that Putin, who is considered anxious, was wearing a bulletproof vest under his down jacket.

It is also unclear whether the broadcast and the subsequent appearance of the Kremlin boss ended so quickly because there was a dangerous situation.

"It's about freeing people from this suffering, from this genocide.

This is the main reason, motivation and purpose of the military operation that we launched in Donbass and Ukraine," Putin said.

And he quotes words from the Holy Scriptures: "There is no greater love than giving your life for your friends." That's how "heroically" the fight went.

"It's been a long time since we've had unity like this."

In Kremlin-related Telegram channels, assumptions can be read that heads are sure to roll on state television for this glitch.

Only on Monday did the TV employee Marina Ovsyannikova protest against Putin's war in Ukraine with a poster in the main news.

The cancellation of Putin's TV speech is the second glitch on Russian state television within a week.

Putin's speech on TV breaks off: Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium is filled with flag-wavers

First report from March 18, 4:24 p.m

.: Moscow – Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium, filled with people waving the Russia* flag, can be heard chanting for President Putin* and patriotic pop music: On Friday the Kremlin celebrated the in this way eighth anniversary of the annexation of Crimea, in the midst of the bloody escalation of the Ukraine conflict.

Only 1,200 kilometers away, hundreds of thousands of Mariupol residents have been trapped for days, and Putin remained cool in the negotiations on Friday.

In the middle of Putin's speech on the Ukraine war*, the TV signal suddenly breaks off.

Instead, state TV shows recorded images of speeches and concert performances.

"Completely inexplicable.

The program of the Crimean Party continues, Putin has mysteriously disappeared," writes ARD Moscow correspondent Ina Ruck on Twitter.

"His speech was abruptly interrupted after 3 minutes, cut to pop singer.

Program goes on without Putin.

Only 1 channel transmits (before all).”

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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow.

© Alexander Vilf/SNA/Imago

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"Technical problems" were the reason for the sudden interruption of Putin's speech, the Kremlin later said.

"There was a glitch on a server," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Interfax on Friday.

A little later, the speech was shown in full on the Rossiya 24 TV channel.

It was initially unclear how the alleged breakdown could have happened.

A video shows the speech stopping abruptly:

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reporter claims to have observed that even before Putin's speech began, people left the stadium in droves.

When he asked why, he got the following answer: "We registered, now we can go home." Perhaps there was a kind of attendance requirement for members of Putin's United Russia party, he suspects.

Ukraine war: speculation on Twitter - what was behind the canceled TV broadcast?

Further speculation is circulating online as to what could be behind Vladimir Putin's interrupted speech.

"Something unscheduled must have happened," suspected the Austrian TV journalist Peter Fritz on Twitter.

Eugen, who claims to be German with Ukrainian roots, jokes maliciously: “Putin says the word 'war' on television and is faded out.

victim of his own censorship.

I'm celebrating." Another user suspects the global hacker group "Anonymous" behind the cancellation of the TV broadcast and simply writes: "Thank you, Anonymous".

But the Twitter members also deal with the content of the speech and the behavior of the viewers.

It is discussed whether, after this performance and the jubilation, one can still speak of "Putin's Ukraine war" or whether the Russian people's enthusiasm for the war is underestimated.

"Just saw the video.

Putin's bizarre proganda show, Z-symbols*, everyone waving flags, Rossiya calls, martial words - that brings back the darkest memories for me...", writes user Sebastian Plothe.

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Source: merkur

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