One of Vladimir Putin’s key TV propaganda spreaders has called for the almost total destruction of Ukraine.
Vladimir Solovyov cruelly suggested it would be a “gesture of goodwill” to demolish key infrastructure throughout the country.
During his latest television diatribe, Solovyov appeared enraged that Russia's recent progress Ukraine is limited to completing the invasion of Luhansk region.
Russian defence chiefs earlier this week called their retreat from Snake Island in the Black Sea amid sustained attack from the Ukrainians a “gesture of goodwill”.
The move angered many in Putin's circle who saw it as a humiliating failure.
Solovyov is normally seen as spouting Putin’s views but there is increasing anger among some hard-line hawks in Moscow at what they see as the slow pace, and limited ambitions, of the Kremlin’s land grab.
“Is it possible to f***ing destroy the government district in central Kyiv - as a gesture of goodwill?” he demanded on state-owned Rossiya 1 channel.
“A gesture of goodwill - in connection with the supply of a large amount of NATO equipment.
“Is it possible to finally destroy the entire civilian, military, [and] transport infrastructure in the west of Ukraine?
“As a gesture of goodwill, destroy all [electricity] substations, television towers.”
He demands that Russian generals should “completely deprive the country of electricity, water supply, communications - as a gesture of goodwill.”
His blast comes as the area around the United Kingdom’s embassy in Moscow is to be renamed Luhansk People's Republic [LPR] Square in a move intended to embarrass the British.
Britain does not recognise either the LPR, or Donetsk People’s Republic.
Strategic Snake Island in the Black Sea had been in dispute since early in the war when Ukrainian defenders famously told an approaching Russian warship to "go f*** yourself”.
The Russian cruiser - the Moskva - was later sunk in a Ukrainian missile strike, perhaps Vladimir Putin's biggest single humiliation of the war.
Last week Russia retreated from the island.
