Pictures of Russian Deputy Defense Minister Aleksandr Fomin rewarding war veterans in Ukraine who have amputated all nine limbs end up on Russian television Pervy Kanal (First Channel). And a talk show debate admitting that the conflict with Kyiv could last for years, if not decades. Repubblica correspondent Rosalba Castelletti said today that while Russia is proposing a ceasefire on Moscow TV, cracks about the invasion are beginning to appear. Like those admired on the episode of 60 Minutes, the talk show hosted by spouses Olga Skabeeva and Evgeniy Popov on Rossiya 1, the second most watched TV in the Russian Federation.
There, experts who predicted that President Putin’s special operation would lead to the capture of Ukraine “in eleven minutes” began to talk about other times. The political scientist Vitaly Tretyakov spoke of a “serious situation: We have to admit that there has been no psychological change in our company where the other side has lost the will to resist. Ukrainian resistance neither stops nor weakens ». An opinion shared by others in the studio. “It is obvious that the denazification process of Ukraine will take at least 1520 years,” commented military expert Igor Korotchenko. Deputy and former General Vladimir Shamalov was even more pessimistic: at least two generations of Ukrainians would have to be “reeducated” before they tolerated Russian dominance: “We can predict that we will stay in the country for 30 or 40 years”.
