Anchor Olga Skabeyeva told her guest it was 'inappropriate' to criticize slow Russian progress in Ukraine.
."Maybe I don't understand something, or will we be celebrating another street seizure with the whole country?"
Ukrainian servicemen of the State Border Guard Service prepare to fire a mortar toward the Russian position in Bakhmut on February 16, 2023. Russia's progress in the war was the subject of a heated exchange on the Kremlin propaganda show 60 Minutes, a clip of which was tweeted on February 18, 2023.He questioned the value of touting Moscow taking"another trench in the village with seven of our own people.
But the anchor on the Russia 1 channel, Olga Skabeyeva, took aim at criticizing Russia's war effort from the comfort of a TV studio and said that"disparaging" Moscow's progress was"inappropriate" considering"how much blood is being shed for these streets." After saying he had been in Ukraine"last week" and would return there again, Zhuravlyov asked Skabeyeva"why have you decided that it is disparaging?" to criticize slow progress as he suggested it was his duty to call the war how he saw it.
He insisted he was not saying that Russian troops were fighting badly, rather,"we're fighting perfectly well in the conditions that we have today" but that"I would like those conditions to be changed."
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