Watch how Russian TV explains slow progress of war with Ukraine
Telegraph, 30 Apr 2022
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Since the start of the war, state-controlled Russian TV has been telling its viewers that the 'military operation' in Ukraine is going according to plan.
But as Putin's army stalls in the face of fierce Ukrainian resistance, pundits have attempted to explain the lack of progress.
Russians are told that their troops exercise restraint, with Ukraine repeatedly accused of using civilians as human shields.
“In such conditions we naturally have to act quite carefully, and that is indeed extending the length of the campaign,” Vyacheslav Nikonov, an MP for the Kremlin-backed United Russia party, told viewers of his own talk show, The Great Game.
Nikonov, whose grandfather was Stalin’s foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov, claimed that Russian forces were acting with “nobility”, something that “simply does not exist in the West”.
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Since the start of the war, state-controlled Russian TV has been telling its viewers that the 'military operation' in Ukraine is going according to plan.
But as Putin's army stalls in the face of fierce Ukrainian resistance, pundits have attempted to explain the lack of progress.
Russians are told that their troops exercise restraint, with Ukraine repeatedly accused of using civilians as human shields.
“In such conditions we naturally have to act quite carefully, and that is indeed extending the length of the campaign,” Vyacheslav Nikonov, an MP for the Kremlin-backed United Russia party, told viewers of his own talk show, The Great Game.
Nikonov, whose grandfather was Stalin’s foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov, claimed that Russian forces were acting with “nobility”, something that “simply does not exist in the West”.
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