Shocking words. Anton Krasovski, a journalist for Russia Today, a Kremlin-funded channel, was suspended after he said on air last week that Ukrainian children critical of Moscow should be “drowned” and “burned,” Reuters reported on Sunday, quoted by The Telegraph. A widely shared sequence on social networks.
“They should have drowned in the Tsna river where the ducklings swim. Drown these children in the Tsna,” Anton Krassovski proclaims on the air, who also calls for “burning them in a hut.”
During the same interview, the journalist also mocks the rape accusations against Moscow forces. “These grandmothers would spend all their savings set aside for their funeral to be raped by Russian soldiers,” he says with amusement.
Anton Krassovski was responding on set to Russian science fiction author Sergei Lukianenko, who asked him about his first trip to Ukraine in the 1980s. According to him, the Ukrainian children he met told him that they would lead a happier life without the occupation. Russian.
The channel denounces “disgusting” comments
Russia Today Managing Editor Margarita Simonyan condemned Anton Krasovsky’s comments Sunday night on Telegram, calling the remarks “violent” and “disgusting.”
“It’s hard to believe that Krasovski honestly thinks children should drown,” he said.
Suggesting that these words might simply have escaped the journalist, he wondered about the “temporary madness” that might have struck Anton Krassovski.
He announces in his message “to stop his collaboration” with the journalist for an indefinite period of time and assures that the Russian media do not share the journalist’s opinion.
An investigation opened by Russia
Anton Krassovski later apologized on social media, saying he was “really embarrassed”. “I apologize to anyone who was surprised by this” and found the comments “wild, unthinkable,” he said.
Russia’s Investigative Committee, in charge of the main investigations in the country, said on Monday that it had demanded “a report” on this incident, following a bystander’s report.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba condemned this televised intervention on Twitterdenouncing “incitement to genocide” and threatening the journalist with a trial.
Anton Krassovski is one of those convicted by the European Union last February in connection with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He is accused in particular of “spreading propaganda against Ukraine”.
Source: BFM TV
