Court sentences Russian TV presenter, who called for drowning Ukrainian children, to 5 years in prison
Based on Security Service of Ukraine's materials, Ukrainian has sentenced Anton Krasovsky, former presenter and director of propaganda TV channel Russia Today (RT), to 5 years in prison with confiscation of property.
Source: Security Service of Ukraine (SSU); Office of the Prosecutor General
Quote: "Following a public accusation by prosecutors of the Prosecutor General's Office, the director of a Russian propaganda TV channel was found guilty of public calls for genocide and forcible change or overthrow of the constitutional order (Article 442.2, Article 109.3 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
He was sentenced to the maximum possible sentence under the sanctions of the articles: 5 years in prison with confiscation of property."
Details: Krasovsky turned the Russian audience against Ukrainians and called for physical extermination of part of the Ukrainian nation. The Russian propagandist on his YouTube channel and in his own Telegram channel spoke derogatory things about the existence of Ukraine as an independent and sovereign state.
Background:
In October 2022, Anton Krasovsky, an RT presenter and director of broadcasting of RT’s Russian-language version, in a conversation with Russian writer Sergey Lukyanenko, suggested drowning Ukrainian children who believed that Ukraine's territory was occupied by Russia. Lukyanenko said that he visited Ukraine as a child in 1980 and that Russian-speaking Ukrainian children told him that Ukraine has been occupied by moskali [a derogatory term for Russians used in Ukraine – ed.]. "Those [kids] should have been drowned in Tysyna, where the duck is drifting [an allusion to Ukrainian folk song Plyve Kacha po Tysyni, or A Duck Drifting Along Tysyna – ed.]. Those kids have to be drowned, drowned…As soon as they say that moskali occupied [Ukraine], throw them in the river where the currents are strong," the presenter said. Krasovsky, in his turn, said that children should be stuffed in huts in the Carpathians and set on fire.
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