The Kremlin-controlled public television channel Rossiya-1 rarely deviates from the government's narrative.
Monday, November 28, however, the presenter Vladimir Soloviev himself raised the question of a potential defeat of Russia in Ukraine.
“
It would be a disaster for our country.
It is not an option.
We must not lose the war
,” dismissed the guest of the day, Margarita Simonian, editor-in-chief of Russia Today.
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"
That another district of Kyiv is deprived of electricity will not change the scale of the catastrophe that will befall our country if we lose, it is unimaginable, we cannot lose
," she says. according to translations by BFMTV and La
Libre Belgique
.
“(The Ukrainians) are getting ready to take our Crimea.
So we do the only thing we can do in this situation: bomb them
,” continues the editor-in-chief, whose RT channel was banned in Europe at the start of the Russian invasion because of its propaganda rhetoric
.
"
Russia does not bomb for fun.
God knows we didn't want that.
Nobody wanted that.
And I know our government didn't want that either
,” she said.
Fears of a judgment in the Criminal Court
The journalist then evokes the fears of certain military leaders who, she deplores, would be afraid of legal reprisals in the event of a Ukrainian victory.
A state of mind that Margarita Simonian criticizes.
“
Unfortunately I know a lot of people who think that.
Including people from the highest spheres
, ”she says.
"
They are afraid and do not dare to say things clearly for fear of what people might think there
", understand, at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, where war crimes and crimes against the humanity.
“
I spit on what they think there.
People who are afraid of The Hague should rather be afraid of losing the war, of being humiliated and of betraying their people
, ”said the guest, ending her diatribe.
Host Vladimir Soloviev then takes the floor again to conclude – visibly throwing a chill on the set:
“The Hague will no longer exist if that happens.
There will be nothing at all.
The whole world will be reduced to ashes”.
