Propagandists on Russian TV are now increasingly admitting that Russia may lose the war against Ukraine. There are calls for the Kremlin to look realistically at what is happening on the front, and not to lie to the population that the Ukrainians have no chance and will be easily defeated – which narrative has been repeated daily for the past 900 days.
Russian director Karen Shahnazarov, a well-known propagandist of Putin's policy and a friend of the Russian president, said in Vladimir Solovyov's program on "Russia 1" that in the current situation "we must be frank and stop repeating that everything it's ok“.
Shahnazarov said that Russian television constantly shows how Ukrainians supposedly do not want to fight, but at the same time we clearly see how they are fighting. And skillfully, motivated, pointed out the friend of Vladimir Putin.
„Why are we deceiving ourselves?”, Shakhnazarov asked. He said that Russia should look at the situation realistically and admit that it could lose. “This is not defeatist thinking or panic-mongering, but we clearly understand what price we and our homeland have to pay,”, he also said, quoted by Russian Media Monitor.
After the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Kremlin propagandists constantly repeated that the Ukrainian people do not want to fight against “their Russian brothers”, and this is the desire only of the regime of Volodymyr Zelensky and his “Western puppeteers&rdquo ;. However, when, a few days ago, on August 6, the Ukrainian army invaded the Kursk region, things completely turned around, and on Russian television they now clearly realize that they made a mistake by attacking Ukraine for no reason. For the first time since World War II, a foreign army invaded the Russian Federation. Dozens of settlements were captured by the ZSU, hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated, and thousands of Russian soldiers – taken prisoner.