Russian state TV propagandist Olga Skabeyeva has claimed that World War III has now started after Ukraine hit Moscow's warship Moskva in the Black Sea. Rossiya 1 presenter Skabeyeva claimed that the 'escalation' could 'safely be called World War Three', claiming that 'we are definitely fighting against... NATO itself'.
Skabeyeva stuck to the Kremlin's official line that the warship suffered a 'fire' despite heading a segment that blamed the vessel's demise on Ukraine, according to the Daily Mail.
Skabeyeva's Panel Expert Suggests Russia to Use Nukes
Some experts had also joined Skabeyeva's chat show, claiming that Moskva's sinking will be the absolute cause of a more intense war. Experts also vowed that there has to be a response to the vessel's sinking even they suggested Russian President Vladimir Putin use nuclear weapons on Kyiv to 'bomb them once and that's it'.
And here we have it - in a rant seemingly aimed at explaining to viewers why the "special operation in Ukraine" is taking so long, Russian state TV presenter Olga Skabeyeva says her country is fighting World War Three against Nato
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Skabeyeva even went on to say that ordinary people in Ukraine are not mentioning any genocide. She also claimed that Kharkiv residents are accusing Ukrainian armed forces of genocide, not the Russian troops.
Olga Skabeyeva Russian Media broadcast with commentators calling for all out war after sinking of Moscow, including bombing and possibly discussing dropping "a single bomb on Kyiv" to keep world leaders from visiting. #RussianUkrainianWar pic.twitter.com/R0uOLol0FV
— EyesFromUkraine (@NowInUkraine) April 15, 2022
Last night, another Russian state TV show Vremya Pokazhet claimed that the West was supplying a massive number of weapons to Ukraine and that, at the suppliers bidding, Kyiv was carrying 'yet more provocations, bloody, horrible, completely unthinkable'.
Olesya Loseva, the host of the show, claimed that the West wants all Russians to be simply wiped off the face of the earth'.
Olga Skabeyeva, one of Putin's top media figures in the tightly controlled echo chamber of state-run Russian media, bizarrely claimed that war in Ukraine had escalated into a war against @NATO. She fumed as Russia was humiliated once again when flagship Moskva was sent to the…
— Mickangelo (@Mickangello) April 15, 2022
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The host continued to make false claims stating that Ukrainians were delighted to see Russian troops in their country. She maintained that civilians were waving the Russian tricolor and treating Putin's troops as real liberators in Kharkiv.
Another state-run Channel 1 ran remarks of military commentator Dmitry Drozdenko, who claimed the Western powers have long been preparing for the war. The expert also made claims that Moscow faces 'a full-scale multi-level war' against the 'collective West'.
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