Russia Today banned and condemned a television presenter who called for the drowning of Ukrainian children on live TV. He now faces investigation by authorities.
Anton Krasovsky, a former vocal LGBT activist and dissident turned pro-government pundit, made the series of inflammatory statements during an interview with author Sergei Lukyanenko on RT, suggesting that Russia should drown Ukrainian children who are hostile to Russia or beat them into huts and set them on fire at a time when Russia is invading Ukraine.
“It is necessary to straight-up drown these children. A kid said that ‘Muscovites have occupied’ — you immediately throw them into a river with a turbulent current," Krasovsky said, according to RT. When he got pushback from Lukyanenko, he suggested that Ukrainian children should be beaten into wooden huts, which would then be set on fire.
"For the children of Ukraine, as well as the children of Donbass, and all other children, I wish that all this ends as soon as possible, and they can live and study in peace again — in the language they consider native," she concluded. The statements were held by Ukrainians to be an incitement to genocide and led to widespread calls in Ukraine to ban RT worldwide, most notably from Ukraine's foreign minister, Dmytro Kubela.
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