Head of Russian state broadcaster suddenly admits that Russians are worried in the highest circles about losing the war and being tried for war crimes | War Ukraine and Russia

Simonyan – a sanctioned confidante of Russian President Vladimir Putin – first justified Russia’s actions in Ukraine. “They (Ukraine, ed.) are getting ready to conquer our Crimea (the southern region in Ukraine annexed by Russia since 2014, ed.), we do the only thing we can do in this situation: bomb. We bomb their infrastructure. Infrastructure that helps them fight and kill our people in areas that are now ours.”

It immediately sounds that Russia does not bomb for pleasure. “God knows we didn’t really want this. Nobody wanted this. Not you and not me. And I know our government didn’t want that either.”

She then says that she is “surprised” about her “soft” compatriots. “Unfortunately I know many of them, including people from the highest circles. They are afraid and do not dare to name things for fear of what people could think there. I spit on what they think there. People who are afraid of The Hague should rather be afraid of losing the war, being humiliated and betraying their people.”

“If we lose, The Hague will even go after a street sweeper who sweeps the cobblestones behind the Kremlin,” she continues. disaster that will fall on our country if we lose. It is not possible to imagine. We must not lose.”

Simonyan also threatens again with the end of the world if Russia is defeated. “There will be no more The Hague if we lose. There will be nothing more. The world will be reduced to ashes.”