Ukraine urges world ban of Russia’s RT after presenter requires drowning of Ukrainian kids By Reuters

(Reuters) – Ukraine branded the Russian state-controlled RT media outlet as an inciter of genocide on Sunday after a presenter mentioned Ukrainian kids who noticed Russians as occupiers underneath the Soviet Union ought to have been drowned.

In a present broadcast final week, RT presenter Anton Krasovsky mentioned kids who criticised Russia ought to have been “thrown straight right into a river with a powerful present”.

Krasovsky – a pro-war commentator on Russian TV who has been sanctioned by the European Union – was responding to an account by Russian science fiction creator Sergei Lukyanenko about how, when he first visited Ukraine within the Nineteen Eighties, kids advised him they’d dwell higher lives had been it not for Moscow occupying their nation.

“They need to have been drowned within the Tysyna (river),” Krasovsky mentioned in response. “Simply drown these kids, drown them.” Alternatively, he mentioned, they may very well be shoved into huts and burned.

In a brief section of the interview which was shared on social media, Krasovsky additionally laughed at studies that Russian troopers had raped aged Ukrainian girls in the course of the invasion.

“Governments which have nonetheless not banned RT should watch this excerpt,” Ukraine’s Overseas Minister Dmytro Kuleba mentioned in a tweet that linked to a clip of the interview.

“Aggressive genocide incitement (we are going to put this individual on trial for it), which has nothing to do with freedom of speech. Ban RT worldwide,” Kuleba added.

Russian state tv, closely managed by the Kremlin, has been a vocal cheerleader of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Presenters have routinely dismissed studies of Russian warfare crimes and lots of have used airtime to name on Russian President Vladimir Putin to undertake an much more aggressive strategy to the invasion.

The Kremlin denies its forces have dedicated warfare crimes in Ukraine.