Paccording to the TV presenter, he became “really embarrassed” because of his words. On October 20, on RT, he suggested drowning and burning children in Ukraine Anton Krasovsky RT presenter Anton Krasovsky, who suggested in one of his programs to drown and burn children in Ukraine, apologized four days later for his statement, saying that he was “really embarrassed”. He decided to ask for forgiveness from those who, according to him, were “stunned” by his words. “Listen, I’m really embarrassed that I somehow didn’t see this border. About children. Well, it happens like this: you sit on the air, you are carried. And you can’t stop»,— he explained his words. On October 20, during a broadcast on RT with an invited guest, science fiction writer Sergei Lukyanenko, Krasovsky suggested killing children in Ukraine. He expressed this idea when commenting on Lukyanenko’s story about trips to Ukraine in the 1980s. He recalled that some children told him that “Ukraine is occupied by Muscovites.” “That’s right to drown these children, drown. This is not your method, you are intelligent people, science fiction writers, and this is our method. That’s what the “Muscovites” said bluntly, they occupied it and immediately you throw it directly into the river with a violent, stormy current,” Krasovsky said in response. When the writer objected that it was better to use rods in such cases, Krasovsky added that children could also be burned: “They have every hut there called Smerekov’s hut.” Straight into this “smerekov’s hut” to hammer and burn”. Lukyanenko in response noted that this is extremism and he does not support such proposals.
Four days later, after Krasovsky’s statements drew attention on social networks, RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan announced that the TV channel was suspending cooperation with the presenter. “Anton Krasovsky’s statement is wild and disgusting. Perhaps Anton will explain what temporary insanity it was caused by and how it slipped from his tongue. Difficultto believe that Krasovsky sincerely believed that it was necessary to drown children. At the moment, I am stopping our cooperation, because neither I nor the rest of the RT team can allow even the thought to flash that one of us is capable of sharing such a game,” she explained.
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