MOSCOW, April 14 Ukrainian TV channel «2+2» showed the film «Reckoning» with a call for reprisals against Russian military and journalists, including the general director of the Rossiya Segodnya media group Dmitry Kiselev and the editor-in-chief of the Rossiya Segodnya media group and the RT channel Margarita Simonyan.
Threats against TV presenters were also voiced in the film Vladimir Solovyov and Olga Skabeeva. All of these journalists were the targets of a Kiev-planned assassination attempt, which was foiled last year by the FSB.
The film is dedicated to the events in the city of Bucha in the Kyiv region at the beginning of last year. Its authors accused the Russian military of torture and murder, which was repeatedly rejected by Moscow as a fake, and proposed the creation of a «Ukrainian analogue of the Mossad» to carry out «extrajudicial punishment», including President Vladimir Putin.
«An important component is assistance crime. Therefore, Kiselev, Skabeev and Solovyov also need to be ready,” the Ukrainian video says.
The filmmakers called “propaganda” an important component of the conflict and declared Russian journalists and TV presenters “responsible for war crimes.”
“Instigation is sometimes worse than terrorism itself. Under instigation, I’m talking about all kinds of propagandists, these are their channels. Simonyan and other propagandists of all kinds are to blame. From the point of view of Israel, even more responsibility falls on their shoulders,” says an officer of the Defense Army Israel and military analyst Yigal Levin.
The video ends with the phrase: «We will come for you, no one will be able to hide» and a fragment of the speech of the head of the SBU Vasily Malyuk, who said from the rostrum of the Verkhovna Rada that «death is the only prospect» for the Russian military .
Attempts to assassinate Russian journalists Last spring, the FSB reported the arrest of six members of the neo-Nazi terrorist organization National Socialism/White Power * — citizens of Russia who planned, on the instructions of the Security Service of Ukraine, the murder of VGTRK journalist Vladimir Solovyov. As follows from the operational video footage released by the FSB, the detainees discussed the possibility of killing not only Solovyov, but also the general director of the Rossiya Segodnya MIA Dmitry Kiselev and the editor-in-chief of the Rossiya Segodnya and RT MIA Margarita Simonyan, VGTRK journalists Olga Skabeeva, Yevgeny Popov, director Tigran Keosayan .
Kiselyov, commenting on Kiev's plans to kill Solovyov, called lies the only method of information work in Ukraine, and noted that the persecution of journalists in this country has become a routine that is not condemned by either the state or society. He recalled other cases of persecution of journalists, including murders with impunity — in particular, Oles Buzina.
* A neo-Nazi terrorist organization banned in Russia.