A leading presenter on Russia's state TV has told the watching public that World War Three has started following the sinking of the Moskva. Officials have not acknowledged Ukraine’s claims that it struck the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet with cruise missiles.
The sinking of the Russian ship has sent the Kremlin's main channels into meltdown last night. Olga Skabeyeva told Rossiya 1 channel viewers that "what it's escalated into can safely be called World War Three" and insisted "that's entirely for sure."
“Now we're definitely fighting against Nato infrastructure, if not Nato itself. We need to recognise that,” reports the Mirror.
Military commentator Dmitry Drozdenko said on separate state-run Channel 1: “In actual fact a full-scale multi-level war is underway with the collective West. And the West has long been preparing for the war." Anchor Olesya Loseva, host of Vremya Pokazhet, told viewers that the West was now supplying "zillions of weapons” to Ukraine.
She argued that Ukraine was doing the West’s bidding by carrying out "yet more provocations, bloody, horrible, completely unthinkable.” These will “force people to shudder once again and say that Russia Is a country which is unworthy of even being on the world map and that all Russians should simply be wiped off the face of the earth”.
Skabeyeva claimed Ukrainians were delighted to see Russian troops in their country. They blamed the Ukrainians for “genocide, not the Russians, she claimed.
“For some reason ordinary Ukrainians themselves aren't noticing any genocide. In Kharkiv region they're welcoming our soldiers like real liberators," she said. “People are coming out with Russian tricolours onto the streets where our military kit is. The people of Kharkiv are accusing not the Russian army of genocide, but the Ukrainian armed forces.”
