A chilling new segment on Russia's state-funded TV Channel Russia Today (RT) saw a Kremlin propagandist arguing in favour of drowning Ukrainian children in rivers and burning them in their own homes.
RT's Director of Broadcasting Anton Krasovsky suggested that any child who believes their country is being occupied by Russia needs to be thrown into a fast river and drowned alive.
His other suggestion was to put the children into wooden houses, nail the doors shut and burn them alive.
"They should have been drowned in the Tysyna River, right there where the ducklings swim," he says with a smirk on his face.
"Just drown those children. Drown them.
"Shove them right in those huts and burn them up."
He also makes monstrous comments about the rapes by Russian soldiers, saying Ukraine should not exist and Ukrainians who resist Russia should be shot.
He justifies his remarks by saying: "That's not your [Ukrainian] method, because they are intelligent people. But that's our method."
One commentator pointed out that Mr Krasovsky could be prosecuted for incitement of genocide.
Two weeks ago, Mr Krasovsky posted a video of himself dancing on a balcony in his pyjamas and wearing a cap bearing a Z, the symbol that Russian forces painted on military vehicles while invading Ukraine.
In a Telegram post, he said the damage to Ukraine’s power lines was “not enough! Not enough!”
He previously said Ukraine should not exist and Russia will do everything in its power to make it disappear.
On Sunday, day 242 of the war, hundreds of thousands of people in central and western Ukraine woke up to power outages and periodic bursts of gunfire, as Ukrainian air defence tried to shoot down drones and incoming missiles.
Kira Rudik, a member of the Ukrainian parliament, said 1.5 million people were without electricity after Russian strikes against power stations on Saturday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the Russian attacks had struck on a "very wide" scale and he pledged his military would improve on its already good record of downing missiles with help from its allies.
Russia said on Sunday it had destroyed a large ammunition depot in Ukraine's central Cherkasy region and had repelled Ukrainian counter-offensives along the frontlines in southern and eastern Ukraine.
