UKRAINE SEEKS GLOBAL BAN ON RT AFTER PRESENTER’S ‘GENOCIDAL’ STATEMENTS

Mon 24 October 2022:

Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has hit out at RT after a presenter said Ukrainian children who saw Soviet Russians as occupiers should have been drowned.

“Governments which have still not banned RT must watch this excerpt,” he said on Twitter, linking to the clip and adding that Ukraine would put presenter Anton Krasovsky on trial for “aggressive genocide incitement”.

RT presenter Anton Krasovsky (file photo).

Margarita Simonyan, RT’s editor-in-chief and viewed as Russia’s chief propagandist, condemned Krasovsky’s “disgusting” remarks, and said no one at RT shared his views.

Krasovsky has been suspended and has since apologised as Russia’s state Investigative Committee said it was probing his remarks.

In a show broadcast last week, RT presenter Anton Krasovsky said children who criticized Russia should have been “thrown straight into a river with a strong current.”

ведущий RT Антон Красовский, в эфире призвал “топить” и “сжигать” украинских детей 😡Заявление Красовского прозвучало во время интервью с писателем Лукьяненко.
RT presenter Anton Krasovsky, on the air called for “drown” and “burn” Ukrainian children 😡 pic.twitter.com/KLiWoGJrky

— Irina IL (@IrinaIL9) October 24, 2022

Krasovsky — a pro-war commentator who has been sanctioned by the European Union — was responding to an account by Russian science fiction author Sergei Lukyanenko about how, when he first visited Ukraine in the 1980s, children told him they would live better lives were it not for Moscow occupying their country.

“They should have been drowned in the Tysyna (River),” Krasovsky said in response. “Just drown those children, drown them.” Alternatively, he said, they could be shoved into huts and burned.”

In a short segment of the interview, which was shared on social media, Krasovsky also laughed at reports that Russian soldiers had raped elderly Ukrainian women during the invasion.

Krasovsky’s comment sparked outrage in Ukraine and the West, feeding allegations that Russia is intent on eradicating Ukrainians as a race.

Krasovsky gained some Western recognition when he announced live on Russian TV in 2013 that he was gay to protest against Kremlin-backed legislation imposing harsh fines and jail terms for the distribution of homosexual “propaganda” to minors.

Krasovsky’s public announcement brought his soaring career as a Russian television journalist to a temporary end as he was barred from state media. He returned as a presenter for the Russian state-controlled broadcaster in 2020.

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