A guest on Russia's First Channel described Ukrainians as 'hostages' in explaining their motives for fighting in Moscow's invasion.
"Some young people have been, let's say, stupefied by the propaganda which has existed for a long time," he said on Monday, referring to Ukrainians.
"We know that the propaganda is simply misanthropic and virtually linked to cannibalism, again cases of this have been recorded on the front." "They are doing this within some kind of identity. Attempting to cut themselves off from the Slavs and their kindred people and say that 'we're entirely different.'"
He said that most of them were people"who have been involuntarily sucked into it" and had been"mobilized from some factory" and sent to the front. "They can't do anything about it. They know that if they turn back, they'll simply be shot," he said."They're like hostages as most people in Ukraine are," as he referred to"mass shootings which are periodically carried out there'' and"the complete powerlessness of people in the trenches."
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