The TV presenter called on Ukrainian children to “drown in the river”.
The presenter of the Russian state-controlled RT TV channel said that during the Soviet rule, Ukrainian children who viewed Russians as invaders should have been drowned in the river.
The host of RT Anton Krasovsky in a broadcast a week ago, he noted that children who criticized Russia “should have been thrown into a fast-flowing river”.
Krasovki, who was a supporter of the war Europe It is under the sanctions of the Union. He is a Russian science fiction writer Sergey Lukyanenkosaid in his reaction to his memories. According to the writer, when he visited Ukraine in the 1980s, children told him that they would have lived better if Moscow had not invaded their country.
“It was necessary to drown them in Tisina (river). Just throw those kids in the river, throw them away.” – said Krasovski and suggested that the children be “collected in huts and burned”.
A small part of the interview social spread in the media. In that interview, Krasovsky laughs at the reports that Russian works raped elderly Ukrainian women during the occupation.
What they called the leader caused outrage in Ukraine and in the West, fueling allegations about Russia’s intention to exterminate Ukrainians.
“Governments that have not yet banned RT should look at this part”, – of Ukraine Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmitry Kuleba tweeted a link to a part of the interview.
“Aggressive incitement of genocide (for which we will prosecute this person) has nothing to do with freedom of speech. Ban RT Worldwide”, Kuleba added to his words.
Krasovsky in 2013 Russia announced that he was gay live on his television, and thus the Kremlin imposed severe fines for “promoting” homosexuality to minors and imprisonment expressed his objection to the legislation providing for punishment. After that he temporarily Russia was removed from television.
That same year, when a 22-year-old man was killed by neighbors in the southern Russian city of Volgograd for being gay, Krasovki wrote a column in The Guardian criticizing the Kremlin for targeting a group of men.