It has been reported that the
Russian state TV propagandists have declared that World War III had already
started after Ukrainian forces managed to sink Vladimir Putin’s Black Sea
flagship, the Moskva.
The Kremlin’s main propaganda mouthpiece went off on a rant last night after
the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet was taken out.
The flagship sank while being
towed to port yesterday after suffering heavy damage under circumstances that
remained in dispute, Daily Mail reports. Kyiv said it was struck by two Neptune
cruise missiles fired by a coastal battery, which struck the port side of the
vessel, causing it to roll over.
Olga Skabeyeva, one of Putin’s leading propagandists said Western support for
Ukraine amounted to direct conflict with Russia.
She said: “What it’s escalated into can safely be called World War
Three. That’s entirely for sure. Now we’re definitely fighting against NATO infrastructure,
if not NATO itself. We need to recognize that.”
Military commentator Dmitry Drozdenko said on separate state-run Channel
1: “In actual fact, a full-scale multi-level war is underway with the
collective West. And the West has long been preparing for the war.”
Anchor Olesya Loseva, the host of Vremya Pokazhet, told viewers that the West was
now supplying “zillions of weapons” to Ukraine. She claimed Ukraine was
doing the West’s bidding by carrying out “yet more provocations, bloody,
horrible, completely unthinkable,” and “force people to shudder once again and
say that Russia Is a country which is unworthy of even being on the world map
and that all Russians should simply be wiped off the face of the earth”.
Skabeyeva also claimed that Ukrainians were delighted to see Russian troops in
their country. She said: “for some reasons, ordinary Ukrainians themselves aren’t
noticing any genocide. In the Kharkiv region, they’re welcoming our soldiers
like real liberators. People are coming out with Russian.”
