Prince Andrew and Prince Charles need” a war in Ukraine, says Russian state television

Prince Andrew and Prince Charles are among those who “need” a war in Ukraine, claims a Russian remote of the state remote as part of an ongoing propaganda campaign to blame the Ukraine crisis.

The bizarre claim was set during a program on Russia 1, in which pictures of the two royal family members as well as Boris Johnson and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish president, were shown.

"What is television viewers in Russia will be told about the tensions in Ukraine tonight? The exact opposite of television reports in the West," said Steve Rosenberg, Correspondent of the BBC in Moscow when he tweeted several statues from the show.

"Who needs war?" Asks state television. Anchor lists Biden, Johnson, Prince Charles, Prince Andrew, Erdogan, Macron, Zelensky. Alternative reality. ”

The broader context of the TV segment was unclear, but it seemed to argue that the Russia-Ukraine crisis was used to distract the attention in the west from the scandal to Prince Andrew.

Russian television commentators increasingly claim that the West and “fascists” are behind the current crisis in Ukraine and not its President Vladimir Putin.

dmitry Kisseljow, a prominent Russian moderator who was called the "Putin's mouthpiece", claimed that Ukrainian "tortured and cruelly killed" thousands of Ukrainians in the east.

In a recently published segment, he conducted an interview with a separatist fighter in the east who told the Russian viewers that the Ukrainian armed forces want to kill and slaughter them and want to hang their children on wires.

Tatics is similar to the Russian propaganda campaigns, which ran until the conflict between Russia and Ukraine in 2014. They were then used by the Kremlin as justification for the invasion of eastern Ukraine, on the grounds that they would protect ethnic Russians in the region.

In Donestk controlled by separatists, posters that call up the citizens are reminiscent of the Soviet victory over the Nazis in World War II.

"We won in 1943. We will win now," says one.