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<ul class="summary-list"><li>A Russian state TV host said Moscow hasn't decided whether to "reinstall" Trump as president in 2024.</li><li>The US intelligence community concluded <keyword id="11894337" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="russia" source="Orion">Russia</keyword> interfered in 2016 and 2020 to boost Trump's chances of winning.</li></ul>Russian state TV host <keyword id="14386094" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="olga-skabeyeva" source="Orion">Olga Skabeyeva</keyword> suggested that the Kremlin has the power to propel <keyword id="11914386" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="donald-trump" source="Orion">Donald Trump</keyword> back into the White House if he runs again in 2024. During an episode of her talk show this week Skabeyeva, <a href="https://www.insider.com/olga-skabeyeva-russian-propagandist-putin-ukraine-war-rhetoric-shift-2022-4">a prominent Kremlin propagandist</a>, said Russia "will have to think whether to reinstall him again as the American president. We haven't decided yet."The host's comments, translated Julia Davis, who monitors and analyzes Russian media, underscores the ongoing threat Russia poses to US elections, particularly at a time of high tension between the two nations. Intelligence agencies in the US concluded that Russia interfered in the <a href="https://affiliate.insider.com?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%2Fsenate-report-affirms-u-s-intelligence-findings-on-2016-russian-interference-11587483408">2016</a> and <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/03/16/977958302/intelligence-report-russia-tried-to-help-trump-in-2020-election">2020</a> elections in an effort to boost Trump's chances of winning. The US intelligence community has also emphasized that no American votes were altered as part of these efforts. The Kremlin has repeatedly denied that Russia interfered in US elections.Throughout his presidency, Trump's relationship with Russia was heavily scrutinized as he routinely downplayed the Kremlin's interference in US elections.An investigation into Russian election interference led by special counsel <keyword id="12010116" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="robert-mueller" source="Orion">Robert Mueller</keyword> did not find evidence that the Trump campaign deliberately conspired or coordinated with Moscow to interfere in the 2016 election. But it did conclude that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/robert-mueller-congressional-hearing-disaster-for-democrats-2019-7?utm_source=yahoo.com&amp;utm_medium=referral">the Trump campaign welcomed Russia's interference.</a>Mueller's final report said that "the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the [Trump] Campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts." <h2>Trump and Russia</h2>Trump has often faced criticism for habitually praising and defending Russian President <keyword id="11899444" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="vladimir-putin" source="Orion">Vladimir Putin</keyword>.In one of the more infamous moments of his presidency, Trump — while meeting with Putin <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/cia-reportedly-went-into-panic-mode-during-trump-putin-helsinki-meeting-2018-12">in Helsinki</a> during 2018 — appeared to side with the Russian leader over his US intelligence apparatus on the subject of Russia's election interference.Trump later walked back on those comments amid bipartisan criticism in Washington, claiming he misspoke. But even in his post-presidency, Trump has not stopped praising Putin. The former president in February hailed Putin's justifications for attacking Ukraine as <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-ukraine-invasion-justification-genius-savvy-2022-2">"genius" and "savvy."</a> The Ukraine war has exacerbated the contentious dynamic between Moscow and Washington, leading the Biden administration to slap unprecedented sanctions on Russia. Trump, who continues wield unparalleled influence over the Republican party, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ex-gop-official-trump-announce-2024-campaign-no-impulse-control-2022-7">hasn't formally announced</a> he'll run in 2024. But he's <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-getting-anxious-about-announcing-2024-presidential-run-report-2022-7">hinted</a> he intends to seek the GOP presidential nomination once again, even as other Republicans, such as Florida Gov. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-rogan-florida-gov-ron-desantis-would-be-good-president-2022-6">Ron DeSantis</a>, position themselves for potential White House bids of their own.Meanwhile, Trump and his allies are still pushing false claims about the 2020 election, rejecting the results with <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-fox-news-interview-russia-ukraine-invasion-rigged-election-video-2022-2">conspiratorial, baseless claims</a> about mass voter fraud.Democrats accuse Trump of instigating a deadly insurrection at the US Capitol in January 2021 in a bid to stop Congress' certification of states' electoral vote counts, and the US House <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-impeached-second-time-house-of-representatives-capitol-riots-2021-1">impeached him</a> for a second time as a result, although the US Senate acquitted him.

Russia state TV host suggests Moscow could 'reinstall' Trump as US president

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Ukraine's counteroffensive is underway, and the destruction is evident.</li><li>Footage of destroyed Ukrainian vehicles is spreading, often attributed to the Lancet drone.</li></ul>In recent weeks Ukraine has been pushing hard to retake ground from Russia, as part of a sweeping counteroffensive.The full picture is still emerging, but in places it has been a bruising experience.Russian officials have gleefully shared videos of piled-up wreckage, and often cited as the cause the Russian-made Lancet drone.The Lancet is a loitering munition made by a subsection of Russia's Kalashnikov arms manufacturer. It's new — first used in 2019 — and meant for precision strikes.James Patton Rogers, a drone expert at the Cornell Tech Policy Institute and the University of Southern Denmark, said that the type being fielded by Russia in Ukraine is the Lancet-3, an upgraded version.Rogers said it has a bigger payload than its predecessors — and can likely be operated in first-person view (FPV) for much better accuracy.He also said the drones are most effective against artillery systems, lighter armored vehicles, and older tanks.An account associated with the Russian-backed Donetsk People's Republic published a video Monday <a href="https://t.me/obtf_kaskad/2675" target="_blank" rel="noopener">showing blasts on a cluster of vehicles which it attributes to Lancet strikes</a>.<div type="image" title="A still image from a video purporting to show Russia's Lancet drones hitting a cluster of vehicles." height="891" width="1602" msid="100971179" hostid="261"></div><div type="image" title="A still image from a video purporting to show the moment just after the drone hit." height="895" width="1607" msid="100971180" hostid="261"></div>And Russian media went wild for a second video, which seemed to show a Lancet damaging part of a prized IRIS-T air-defense system provided to Ukraine by Germany.Olga Skabeyeva, a prominent Russian state-media host, <a href="https://t.me/skabeeva/19158" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shared</a> part of <a href="https://www.bild.de/bild-plus/politik/ausland/politik-ausland/russen-attacke-auf-iris-t-deutsches-luftabwehr-system-zerstoert-84259632.bild.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a report from the German newspaper Bild</a> covering the destruction.Vladimir Solovyov, another state-media personality, <a href="https://t.me/SolovievLive/185071" target="_blank" rel="noopener">also gloated over the hit</a>.<div type="image" title="A still image showing a drone trained on part of an IRIS-T air-defense unit in Ukraine." height="555" width="986" msid="100971182" hostid="261"></div>Skabeyeva cited Bild's analysis that the equipment was too close to the front line — some 16 miles away — and also not guarded by complementary systems that could stop a drone. (Bild shares a parent company, Axel Springer, with Insider.)One Russian-affiliated Telegram channel posted a series of successive videos showing the FPV feed of drones cruising in to strike what appears to be the same group of three vehicles.The channel didn't specify the type of drone used, but Patton Rogers said the visuals were consistent with the type of feed a Lancet could produce.<div type="image" title="An image purporting to show a Russian drone about to strike a column of vehicles in Ukraine." height="708" width="878" msid="100971183" hostid="261"></div><div type="image" title="An image purporting to show a Russian drone about to strike a column of vehicles in Ukraine." height="709" width="878" msid="100971184" hostid="261"></div>Some of the videos appear to show Lancet drones finishing off a vehicle after it was already abandoned or disabled by something else. Drones can be a good way to do that without needing to get too close.<a href="https://t.me/grey_zone/19061" target="_blank" rel="noopener">This video, purporting to show a Leopard</a> in the Zaporizhzhia region — a site of heavy fighting — fits that description.Ukraine tends not to acknowledge individual military losses. But it is clear that Lancets are active and a threat — a <a href="https://t.me/Pravda_Gerashchenko/72985" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post from last week hyping Ukraine's air defenses</a> noted that 10 exploding drones had been shot down.The post — which grouped Lancets and Iranian-made Shahed drones into a single category — did not say how many drones made it through.Air defense has long been a problem for Ukraine — and as its forces move forward it becomes harder to give them coverage without putting valuable equipment at risk, as seen with the IRIS incident.Julian Röpcke, the Bild reporter who covered the IRIS-T attack, noted on Monday morning an example of two more armored vehicles destroyed, likely by Lancets."Sufficient air defense remains one of the biggest issues during Ukraine's offensive in the south," he said.Patton Rogers, the drone expert, told Insider that the Lancet is "most certainly a thorn in the side of Ukrainian forces," but it is "by no means a war-winning weapon."He noted that most of the videos showed the drones hitting lighter vehicles. He questioned whether Lancets alone could take out a heavy tank like a Leopard, given its thick armor."I wouldn't believe all the hype, especially when it comes to attacks on more advanced tanks and armored vehicles," he said."We should also note that we don't know how many of these new Lancet drones Russia has," he added. "Western sanctions have certainly made a dent in the Russian ability to produce large numbers of its most high-tech weapons."Asked how Ukraine could best counter the Lancets, Patton Rogers said that commanders should be careful not to advance too quickly."Ukrainian forces must move slowly and in a calculated way in order to keep under the cover – the bubble – of counter-drone and ground-to-air defense systems," he said."Ukraine will also be utilizing its own ever longer range drone systems to hunt down and strike Lancet launch sites in order to destroy the missiles at source," he added.

Russia's Lancet drone is hampering Ukraine's counteroffensive, smashing Western gear and exposing poor air defenses

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A Russian state TV host claimed that continuing <keyword id="12754126" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="sanctions" source="Orion">sanctions</keyword> give Putin a green light to wage war. </li><li>Olga Skabeyeva fabricated remarks from the Dutch Prime Minister she claimed he said recently.</li></ul>A Russian state TV host said the sweeping economic sanctions imposed on her country have given President Vladimir Putin justification to continue waging war in <keyword id="11985141" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="ukraine" source="Orion">Ukraine</keyword>. During a recent broadcast on <keyword id="11894337" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="russia" source="Orion">Russia</keyword>-1, Olga Skabeyeva brought up a speech delivered by Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte as he addressed Russia's war against Ukraine in Madrid on Wednesday, <a href="https://www.today.com/parents/texas-school-district-s-chivalry-homework-assignment-goes-viral-t210811">according to a clip shared by BBC journalist Francis Scarr</a>."Rutte said that any peace agreement with the loss of territories and sovereignty by Ukraine will not lead to the end of sanctions against Russia," Skabeyeva said on-air. She then falsely atrributed a "direct quote" to the Dutch leader about the sanctions lasting "forever," a line he never said in the speech, <a href="https://www.government.nl/documents/speeches/2022/03/30/speech-by-prime-minister-mark-rutte-in-madrid">according to a transcript</a>.Skabeyeva — using the false quote as justification — added: "Russia is offered in plain text to go to the end. There is nothing left to lose."Rutte never made the remark during his speech. Instead, he said: "Let me make one thing very clear: a peace agreement at gunpoint, with the loss of Ukrainian territory and sovereignty, is not the way to get back to normal. Nor will it automatically lead to easing our sanctions."Skabeyeva's justification is the latest of Russia's attempts to try to justify the Ukraine invasion and the deadly war that has ensued since. Translations by Oleksandr Vynogradov.

Russian state TV host gives a curious justification that sanctions are giving Putin a green light to continue the Ukraine war: 'There is nothing left to lose'

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Olga Skabeyeva is one of <keyword id="12241398" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="russian-state-media" source="Orion">Russian state media</keyword>'s most prominent propagandists.</li><li>Her recent remarks about the onset of "World War III" raised eyebrows across the world.</li></ul>Of all the Russian TV propagandists who have pushed Kremlin talking points about the war in <keyword id="11985141" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="ukraine" source="Orion">Ukraine</keyword>, perhaps none has drawn as much attention in Western media as Olga Skabeyeva.Her nicknames include "propagandist-in-chief," <keyword id="13672493" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="russian-state-tv" source="Orion">Russian state TV</keyword>'s "special operation forces," and the "iron doll of Putin TV."In recent weeks and months, Skabeyeva has delivered wild, fervent rants on the government-owned TV channel Russia-1. She has <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-state-television-descends-into-screaming-match-over-vladimir-putins-war-failures-in-ukraine">thundered about the Russian military's struggles</a> on Ukrainian territory, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-state-tv-host-justification-sanctions-putin-ukraine-war-2022-3">fabricated claims</a> about Western leaders, and <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/04/12/bucha-massacre-russia-tv-fake-ukraine-war/">spread a baseless conspiracy theory</a> that the Ukrainian army was responsible for the massacre of hundreds of civilians in Bucha.Skabeyeva is just one of many voices on Russian state media who has distorted facts and misled the public about the war in Ukraine. But experts say her escalating rhetoric is indicative of an important shift in the way the Kremlin speaks about its actions, and could be a harbinger of what's to come.She's a "monster," according to Vasily Gatov, a Russian media researcher and visiting fellow at the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy.Skabeyeva, alongside her husband Yevgeny Popov, has hosted the political talk show "60 Minutes" on Russia-1 for years, and has a long history within Russian media of being a "chauvinistic, patriotic, pro-government, non-critical, clearly scandalous" figure, Gatov said.Earlier this week, Skabeyeva made waves internationally when she <a href="https://twitter.com/francska1/status/1514612770594906117">declared on television</a> that Russians were in the middle of "World War III." A number of Western media outlets seized on the statement as yet another example of Skabeyeva's hyperbolic and conspiratorial claims.<h2>'This moment shows a shift in acceptable state rhetoric'</h2>But Sarah Oates, a professor and senior scholar at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism, told Insider that Skabeyeva's declaration marked an important shift in tone that could help reveal just how far the Kremlin will go to spite the West and achieve its goals in Ukraine."<keyword id="11915774" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="propaganda" source="Orion">Propaganda</keyword>'s not very useful for figuring out what's true and what's not true," Oates said. "But propaganda is incredibly useful for figuring out what the Russian state wants to do."Oates said Skabeyeva's "World War III" reference was notable for two main reasons:<ol><li>The remark leaned on World War II as an "important reference point for <keyword id="11894337" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="russia" source="Orion">Russia</keyword>n nationalism" and insinuated that Russia has a "moral high ground" to stand on.</li><li>Skabeyeva's remark used the word "war" — a conspicuous departure from Russian President Vladimir Putin's and state-run media's previous descriptions of it as a "special military operation" for the "<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/putin-tries-justifying-ukraine-war-denazification-zelensky-jewish-president-2022-2">denazification of Ukraine</a>."</li></ol>Skabeyeva's words were no accident, Oates said. Russian propagandists rarely go off-script, wax poetic, or exhibit any creativity at all in their descriptions. Oates said it's highly likely that Skabeyeva received her "World War III" talking points directly from the government itself."This moment shows a shift in acceptable state rhetoric, because she's a mouthpiece for the state," Oates said. "Anything she says is reflective of the official Kremlin line."She continued: "Invoking World War III is extremely problematic because we know that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/peskov-putin-would-use-nuclear-weapons-in-face-of-existential-threat-2022-3">Putin has threatened nuclear weapons</a>, and we don't really know where Putin's ambition stops."<h2>A 'polarizing' and 'outrageous' figure in Russian media</h2>Skabeyeva has become one of Russian state-run television's most prominent figures after years of echoing Kremlin-backed lines on current events and modern social issues.She's known for overly dramatic and embellished statements and actions — she once even got into a <a href="https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2016/06/10/russian-state-journalists-claim-german-ard-reporter-attacked-them-a53253">physical confrontation</a> with the German journalist who broke the <keyword id="11893589" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="news" source="Orion">news</keyword> of Russia's state-sponsored doping scandal, demanding that he reveal his sources and then accusing him of attacking her.In one particularly bizarre report about gay marriage in France and the United Kingdom, Skabeyeva falsely <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/collegeofjournalism/entries/8c864df6-0d84-3b21-ae49-33663e471d63">told viewers</a> that 40% of children raised by same-sex couples "have venereal diseases.""Cable TV channels in the United States will use talk shows or political chat shows for the most outrageous comments — the same is true on Russian television," Oates said. "So she's being quite deliberately over-the-top and provocative."Skabeyeva has even come under scrutiny from the Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, whose Anti-Corruption Foundation published an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDqSx3Z3mzA">investigative documentary</a> claiming that Skabeyeva and her husband owned real estate in Moscow that was worth $4 million.Skabeyeva and Popov responded to the claims with "outrage," the documentary said, dismissing the claims as "all a lie, we are not paid so much and in general this is not your business."Another investigative outlet, <a href="https://lenta.ru/news/2020/09/24/dohody/">The Insider</a> (which is unaffiliated with Insider), reported that Skabeyeva and Popov each earn annual salaries of 12.8 million rubles, the equivalent of roughly $160,000.Experts said Skabeyeva is a divisive figure in Russian society. Though she is highly influential among loyal viewers of Russian state TV, many Russians — particularly younger ones who get their news from a variety of sources — dislike and distrust her intensely.Gatov likened Skabeyeva's reputation to that of the American Fox News host Tucker Carlson, a highly polarizing figure in American media who draws attention from both fervent supporters and enraged critics."She is, to some extent, very similar to Carlson's popularity. A controversial, scandalous person who polarizes," Gatov said.<h2>Skabeyeva's work follows decades of well-established, yet unsophisticated Russian propaganda</h2>State-sponsored Russian propaganda has existed for decades. But unlike Soviet-era propaganda, which frequently relied on positive messages about Russian resilience and peace, Putin-era propaganda has veered into a decidedly negative and "absolutely fascist" tone, Gatov said."One of the things that came as the main tone of the Putin propaganda is that the rest of the world is so awful, disgraceful, decadent, and we, the great nation of Russia, are the last remaining bastion of morals," Gatov said. "Military propaganda, and especially totalitarian propaganda, which Russian media has finally turned into, relies on extremely simplistic models — the worldview of the besieged fortress, the worldview of 'the world is against us and we are the last man standing.'"<div type="image" title="putin puts the tips of his fingers together and looks unamused" height="1772" width="2500" msid="90989932" hostid="261"></div>Skabeyeva, who built her career throughout the last 15 years under the Putin regime, often propagates those tropes, complaining bitterly of the debauchery and excess of Western nations, while simultaneously portraying Russia as their morally superior, yet woefully mistreated opponent.Oates said propaganda, including Skabeyeva's, may have enamored certain factions of Russian society — mainly, older Russians who primarily get their news from state-run nightly news programs — but she said she expects that effect won't last forever."You can get away with a lot of wartime propaganda, and governments do everywhere," Oates said. "But it's just so clownishly bad sometimes and so over-the top."The existing Russian propaganda is effective mainly because it's reassuring to certain viewers, offering bursts of nationalism they can identify with and derive a sense of pride from, Oates said. But she added that those propagandistic messages will ultimately crumble when audiences begin to feel doubts or fears about their futures, or when everyday Russians begin experiencing dire economic consequences of the war."Complete denial and basically relying on a 1940s anti-Nazi rhetoric is not going to work in the long term. It's just not," she said. "Russians aren't idiots."Translations by Oleksandr Vynogradov.

Meet the star Russian propagandist known as the 'iron doll of Putin TV,' whose escalating rhetoric has shocked the West

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A counteroffensive in Ukraine is leaving Russian state media struggling to respond.</li><li>Some shows featured the unusual sight of hosts conceding that Russia had taken losses.</li></ul>State-media channels have struggled to convey the news of Russia's military losing ground in the wake of a counteroffensive from Ukraine retaking crucial areas.During his <a href="https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/na-cej-chas-zsu-zvilnili-ta-vzyali-pid-kontrol-ponad-30-nase-77621">nightly address on Friday</a>, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that more than 30 settlements had been liberated in the Kharkiv region. A Ukrainian general <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/08/antony-blinken-makes-surprise-visit-to-kyiv-promising-2bn-military-aid">claimed Thursday</a> that troops had advanced 31 miles into previously occupied land.Although Insider could not verify the claims independently, even the presenters and guests on Russia's tightly-controlled state media appeared to take them seriously, seeking ways to manage news of military setbacks.Clips from shows reviewed by Insider showed a rare admission of bad news despite Russia's insistence that reporting follow the official narrative, including referring to the war euphemistically as a "special military operation.""I just wanted to say that everyone who is a believer should pray for our guys," <a href="https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1568352164195737601?s=20&amp;t=4K1o2h6p-KTSJLg1kglgvw">said Anton Anisimov,</a> the host of Russia's sports channel Match TV's political talk show, on Friday."We should pray that our men who are there hold out." A clip of his show was shared by Francis Scarr of BBC Monitoring, which translates foreign media.BBC News reported that Vitaly Ganchev, Russia's top official in the occupied parts of the Kharkiv region, conceded on Russian TV that Ukrainian forces had won a "significant victory" and broken through the Russian defense line.The military blogger Yuri Podolyaka, a regular guest on Channel One's "Time Will Tell" show, also <a href="https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1568281249009082370">conceded</a> that Ukraine's military had made gains."We've given them quite significant territories," Podolyaka said in reference to the advances near Kharkiv.Like others appearing on Russian state media, Podolyaka tempered his bad news with a hint of optimism. Russia's "initial problems" may eventually turn into "big problems" for Ukraine's army, he said, without giving specifics.On Wednesday morning, per <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-state-media-admits-vladimir-putins-worst-case-scenario-in-ukraine-war-is-coming-true">the Daily Beast</a>, a prominent state TV host, Vladimir Solovyov, told listeners of the "Full Contact" radio show that he too was "worried" about Ukrainian gains."Naturally, we want for our guys to crush [the other side] and only to advance, but life doesn't work that way," he said, according to the Beast's translation.Appearing on TV later that day, he called on Russians to "calm down" amid panic on social media channels about the Russian military performance, per Daily Beast. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/08/we-have-already-lost-far-right-russian-bloggers-slam-kremlin-over-army-response">The Guardian reported</a> that pro-war bloggers have used Telegram to criticize the Kremlin for the army's poor performance.Apti Alaudinov, the commander of the Chechen forces fighting for Russia, also appeared to attempt to calm Russian jitters about Ukraine's advance, the Beast reported."Don't worry about a thing," he said while appearing on the Russia-1 show "60 Minutes.""Being defeated in a battle doesn't mean losing the war."The media outlet reported that Russia-1 host Olga Skabeyeva, also tried to dampen the panic on social media channels"If social media and 'couch-experts' existed during WWII, Stalin would have surely lost his mind. We won't succumb to panic," she said, per the Beast. In another segment, <a href="https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1568340048294326272?s=20&amp;t=gZBYNGkG62OKrKlkP__tzg">Skabeyeva responded</a> to Ukraine retaking the city of Balakliya in the Kharkiv region by raising the prospect of nuclear war.She said: "How, who, and in which circumstances, and using which methods, is [Ukraine] planning and hoping to defeat a nuclear power?"

Russian state media struggles to convey news of Russia losing ground in Ukraine: 'pray for our guys'

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A Kremlin propagandist bizarrely claimed that Putin would beat Biden in a US presidential election.</li><li>Another pundit added that Trump would be Putin's vice president in this outlandish hypothetical scenario.</li></ul>A Kremlin propagandist has bizarrely claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin is so popular that Americans would overwhelmingly choose to vote for him over President Joe Biden.Yaakov Kedmi, a regular commentator on Russian state media, appeared on Thursday's episode of "This Evening with Vladimir Solovyov" and argued that Putin's global popularity is soaring, according to <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/kremlin-tv-says-if-putin-ran-for-us-president-hed-winand-trump-would-be-his-veep">the Daily Beast.</a>While <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/31/world/europe/putin-approval-rating-russia.html">Putin's approval ratings in Russia have shot up</a> since he ordered the invasion of Ukraine, the unprovoked war has caused his international reputation to suffer. Nonetheless, Kedmi opined on Russian state media that Putin is electable in Western nations."It was said that [the West] is winning a propaganda war but I'm not so sure about that," Kedmi said, per the Daily Beast. "Look at any country in Europe. Look at France: who is more popular — Macron or Putin?"After other commentators responded that the answer was Putin, Kedmi suggested that the Russian leader is also more popular in Germany, Italy, and the US than their current leaders, per the Daily Beast.Kedmi said: "If tomorrow Putin announced his candidacy for the president of the United States, who in the US could compete with him in popularity?"According to the Daily Beast, foreign policy analyst Alexander Kamkin responded: "And Trump would become his vice president."While President Joe Biden's approval ratings sunk to a <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-approval-rating-falls-36-matching-record-low-reutersipsos-2022-07-19/">record low</a> earlier this month, a <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2022/06/22/international-attitudes-toward-the-u-s-nato-and-russia-in-a-time-of-crisis/pg_2022-07-22_u-s-image_0-06/">Pew Research Center poll from last month</a> shows that Putin's reputation is significantly worse.According to the poll, which surveyed 3,581 US adults, positive views of Putin are in the single digits. Only six percent of those surveyed said they had confidence in the Russian leader to do the right thing regarding world affairs. However, 48% of those surveyed have confidence in Biden's ability to do the same.The implausible suggestion by Kamkin that Trump would be Putin's vice president follows a Russian state TV host suggesting that Moscow could "reinstall" him as US president.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-russia-vladimir-putin-state-tv-2022-7?r=US&amp;IR=T">Insider's John Haltiwanger reported</a> that Olga Skabeyeva, a prominent Kremlin propagandist, suggested that Russia has the power to propel Trump back into the White House should he choose to run.

Kremlin propagandist bizarrely claims Putin is so popular he would beat Biden in a US presidential election, report says

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Putin's crackdown on the free press accelerated following the war in <keyword id="11985141" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="ukraine" source="Orion">Ukraine</keyword>.</li><li>Getting access to independent <keyword id="11893589" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="news" source="Orion">news</keyword> is not impossible in <keyword id="11894337" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="russia" source="Orion">Russia</keyword>, but it's become more and more difficult.</li></ul>By virtually eliminating the independent press in Russia and ensuring state media echoes Kremlin talking points, Russian President <keyword id="11899444" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="vladimir-putin" source="Orion">Vladimir Putin</keyword> has gone to extraordinary lengths to keep the Russian populace in the dark on the human toll from the Ukraine war. Putin's crackdown on the free press — and dissent more generally — began years ago. But the Kremlin's efforts to control the media landscape in Russia reached new heights after Putin ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in late February. "Obviously, this is not the first media crackdown under Putin. But there is a difference in degree in terms of what happened after the war versus before," Maya Vinokour, an assistant professor in the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University, told Insider. "Any major independent outlet that you can name has now been shuttered."In this vacuum of independent media, the cries of Russian state TV personalities resound: that Russia is blameless and the West is the real instigator, that Ukraine is a Nazi state, that World War III has begun. Some experts say Putin's regime has been remarkably, unsettlingly effective in controlling the Russian populace's perception of the war, while others warn that Moscow has isolated the country to such an extent that it's hard to know what people there truly believe anymore. Among other steps to tighten his grip over the narrative, Putin signed a law barring the media from calling the Ukraine war <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/03/05/1084729579/russian-law-bans-journalists-from-calling-ukraine-conflict-a-war-or-an-invasion">a "war,"</a> instead requiring journalists and pundits to refer to the full-scale invasion as a "special operation." Russian journalists who haven't fallen in line have been placed on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-puts-soldatov-wanted-list-exposed-putin-purges-of-fsb-2022-6">wanted lists.</a> Russia's media regulator, Roskomnadzor, blocked access to independent news websites over their coverage of the war. Major social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook have also been blocked in Russia in relation to the war. Facing pressure from the government over their reporting, multiple prominent print, radio, and TV outlets — including <a href="https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ekho-moskvy-closed/31733880.html">Echo of Moscow</a>, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/28/russia-press-freedom-novaya-gazeta/">Novaya Gazeta</a>, and TV Rain — closed up shop or suspended operations since the war began. Vinokour said that some of these outlets have reconstituted in various ways outside of Russia, and there are Russians who access banned websites <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/04/03/1090498728/some-russians-are-are-skirting-website-restrictions-through-vpns-what-are-they">via virtual private networks</a>. Many Russians are also active on Telegram, a social media and chat app that's not been banned, where independent news sources are fighting to counter the often false, conspiratorial posts from Russian state outlets.In short, independent Russian outlets aiming to offer accurate reporting that challenge the government do still exist and have an audience. But a survey from Levada, the only independent pollster in Russia, found a majority of Russians <a href="https://www.levada.ru/2021/08/05/rossijskij-medialandshaft-2021/">get their news from state-run television</a> — where they are being fed a constant stream of propaganda.State TV channels like Channel One and Russia-1 effectively exist to parrot the government's talking points. They feature pro-Putin hosts like Vladimir Solovyov, who constantly vilifies the West while boasting about Russia's supposed military prowess. Meanwhile, Russia was forced to retreat from its assault on Kyiv after staggering losses, and the toll continues to mount — including <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-estimates-russia-tank-losses-in-ukraine-2022-5">over 1,000 tanks</a> and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-moskva-sinking-wake-up-call-for-navies-experts-say-2022-4">a flagship cruiser</a>.The State Department has <a href="https://www.state.gov/disarming-disinformation/faces-of-kremlin-propaganda/vladimir-solovyov/">described Solovyov</a> as possibly "the most energetic Kremlin propagandist around today," adding that the Russian host, his producers, and guests "flood Russian-language audiences with <a href="https://archive.ph/UsmfN#selection-685.5-685.26">Guinness World Record-breaking</a> diatribes of anti-Western and anti-Ukraine disinformation, hatred, and vitriol on a daily basis."Kremlin propagandists like Solovyov routinely pepper Russian audiences with an array of false, baseless, outlandish assertions. "Russian propaganda is not super well-crafted," Vinokour said. As world leaders accuse Moscow of committing genocide in Ukraine, Russian state news has portrayed apparent atrocities committed by Russian troops in Ukraine as staged or fake. <a href="https://www.insider.com/olga-skabeyeva-russian-propagandist-putin-ukraine-war-rhetoric-shift-2022-4">Olga Skabeyeva,</a> who hosts "60 Minutes" on Russia-1, pushed a baseless conspiracy theory that Ukrainians were behind a massacre of civilians in Bucha. Skabeyeva, who has been referred to as the "iron doll of Putin TV," has also told Russians that they're already in the midst of "World War III."Indeed, state news agencies have repeatedly blamed the war on NATO, often portraying the conflict as the beginning of a wider war against the alliance. In the reality viewers won't hear on Russian TV, the invasion of Ukraine was unprovoked. Though Ukraine has received significant levels of support from NATO, including lethal aid, it is not a member of the alliance and was not on the formal path to join it when Russia invaded.Russian state media has also spent a fair amount of time and energy promoting the Kremlin's bogus claim that the war in Ukraine is being waged to liberate it from Nazis. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is Jewish, highlighting how absurd such claims are. <div type="image" title="olga skabeyeva" height="1208" width="1619" msid="92160965" hostid="261"></div>Though Moscow's propaganda on the Ukraine war is not especially sophisticated, that doesn't mean it hasn't been successful. A number of Russia watchers have said that Putin's close control over media has given him a major advantage in terms of keeping the public on his side. Russian journalist Alexey Kovalyov, who previously worked for state news agency RIA Novosti and now works as an editor for the independent, Latvia-based outlet Meduza, in April <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/4/7/meduza-editor-kovalyov-there-is-no-media-landscape-in-russia">told Al Jazeera</a> that Russian state news has been "terrifyingly effective" in molding public opinion on the Ukraine war throughout Russia."There are quite a few heartbreaking accounts of people living in Ukraine under the Russian bombs, they're calling their family members in Russia and telling them they're being bombed by the Russian army, and their own family members refuse to believe them," Kovalyov said. And though the war has been disastrous for Russia on many levels — with the Russian military failing to achieve major objectives and losing an estimate of 15,000 troops in three months — there are signs that many Russians have been convinced otherwise. A <a href="https://www.levada.ru/2022/06/02/konflikt-s-ukrainoj-2/">Levada poll</a> conducted in late May found 77% of Russians support the actions of the Russian armed forces in Ukraine, and 73% believe that the "special operation" is moving forward successfully. But the lack of reliable pollsters in Russia — on top of the fear induced by <a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/04/russia-prominent-opposition-activist-faces-up-to-15-years-in-prison-for-sharing-information-about-the-war-in-ukraine/">the dangers of speaking out</a> against the war or the Kremlin — makes it difficult to gauge the true level of support among the Russian public for Putin's so-called "special operation" in Ukraine. Government-backed polls can't be trusted, and experts like Vinokour are skeptical that any broad-based conclusions can be drawn on levels of public support for the war."The whole idea of polling in inside of what is now a personal authoritarian regime seems suspect to me," Vinokour said.It seems that by vying to control what the Russian public knows about the Ukraine war, Putin has also made it much harder for the wider world to understand what's happening in Russia and how Russians truly feel. Even so, it will be hard for the Russian media to blot out its leader's mistakes and the losses on the scale of the Soviet Union's failed incursion in Afghanistan forever."It is Orwell 1984," <a href="https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1079958276">Russian journalist Yevgenia Albats,</a> who hosted a show on Echo of Moscow before it shut down, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/03/15/1086634309/russia-media-state-television-ukraine-war">told NPR</a> in March. "In this world... lies are truth and war is peace."

Russian state news is one of Putin's greatest weapons during his struggling Ukraine war

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="250191" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Tom-Daley">Tom Daley</keyword> condemned slurs Russian TV broadcasters reportedly used to describe <keyword id="729067" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="LGBTQ">LGBTQ</keyword> Olympians, including himself.</li><li>Daley told The Telegraph he feels "extremely lucky" to be an openly gay man and gold-medal diver.</li><li>He said that as a publicly out athlete, "it takes a lot to come out and speak openly."</li></ul><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2021/08/07/diving-tokyo-olympics-2020-live-tom-daley-gb-final/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Telegraph</a> reported Saturday that the International Olympic Committee has launched an investigation into <keyword id="6358826" type="LOCATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Russia">Russia</keyword>'s state-run <keyword id="395647" type="SPORT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Tokyo-Olympics">Tokyo Olympics</keyword> TV broadcaster that aired a segment in which broadcasters called LGBTQ Olympians "dirt," "perverts," and "psychopaths."British diver and <a href="https://www.insider.com/tokyo-2020-olympics-medal-table-2021-7">Olympic gold-medalist</a> Tom Daley condemned homophobic slurs broadcasters on the Russia-1 network made toward publicly out LGBTQ <keyword id="24261" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Athletes">athletes</keyword> - including himself - telling The Telegraph that "it takes a lot to come out and speak openly."Broadcasters on the Russia-1 network criticized Daley and his husband, <a href="https://www.insider.com/tom-daley-dustin-lance-black-relationship-timeline-2021-7">Dustin Lance Black</a>, who share a 3-year-old son together, The Telegraph reported."In Britain, of course, they have their own values," broadcaster Olga Skabeyeva said in a Russia-1 broadcast with a photo of Daley and Black, <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2021/08/07/diving-tokyo-olympics-2020-live-tom-daley-gb-final/">according to The Telegraph</a>. "If these guys weren't raising a child together, then it'd be their business. They at least compete with other blokes." <div type="image" title="Tom Daley dustin Lance black" height="2007" width="2676" msid="85139587" hostid="261"></div>Daley told The Telegraph that he initially "had no idea" about the Russia-1 broadcast, saying: "When we're at the Olympics, we're in a bubble and we don't really see anything.""History shows that everything that society is has been dictated from the straight, white, male experience. If we could come together and use different points of view, the world would be a better place," Daley told The Telegraph.According to <a href="https://www.outsports.com/olympics/2021/7/12/22565574/tokyo-summer-olympics-lgbtq-gay-athletes-list" target="_blank" rel="noopener">OutSports</a>, there are 182 publicly out LGBTQ athletes at the Tokyo Olympics - more than triple the number of publicly out LGBTQ athletes at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics. There were <a href="https://www.outsports.com/2012/7/18/4053416/23-openly-gay-and-lesbian-athletes-at-2012-london-summer-olympics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">23 publicly out Olympians in 2012</a>, and later <a href="https://www.outsports.com/olympics/2021/7/12/22565574/tokyo-summer-olympics-lgbtq-gay-athletes-list" target="_blank" rel="noopener">56 at the 2012 London Games</a>, Out <keyword id="6356028" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="sports">Sports</keyword> reported. The Tokyo Olympics was also the first to host openly transgender athletes, including Laurel Hubbard, <a href="https://www.insider.com/tokyo-2020-4-transgender-athletes-talk-about-their-olympics-experience-2021-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Canadian soccer player Quinn</a>, and <a href="https://www.insider.com/tokyo-2020-4-transgender-athletes-talk-about-their-olympics-experience-2021-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">USA skateboarder Alana Smith</a>. Daley also told The Telegraph that "there's still a lot further to go," <a href="https://www.humandignitytrust.org/lgbt-the-law/map-of-criminalisation/">adding that being publicly out as LGBTQ is considered a crime in some countries.</a>Daley added: "I feel extremely lucky to be representing Team GB, to be able to stand on the diving board as myself, with a husband and a son, and not have to worry about any ramifications." <div type="image" title="tom daley" height="900" width="1200" msid="85139588" hostid="261"></div>Daley added that he hoped seeing LGBTQ athletes at the Tokyo Olympics would help change people's attitudes."I just hope that seeing 'out' sportspeople will help people to feel like they are less alone, like they are valued, like they can achieve something,' Daley told The Telegraph. "When I was growing up, I always knew I was different. I always heard people saying bad things. You never feel as if you can say anything. You swallow yourself up, and you feel like you're never going to be anyone." He continued to The Telegraph, saying: "It can be quite daunting and scary for people, especially in sports where the fanbases might not be as accepting. I didn't realise the impact it would have on people around the world to live as myself. I feel extremely proud of that."<div type="image" title="British diver Tom Daley biting his Tokyo Olympic gold medal" height="2061" width="2748" msid="85139589" hostid="261"></div>Daley <a href="https://www.insider.com/tom-daley-hopes-inspire-young-lgtbq-people-tokyo-olympics-win-2021-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">won his first Olympic gold medal alongside Matty Lee</a> in the men's synchronized 10-meter diving event in Tokyo. After the event, Daley said that <a href="https://www.insider.com/tom-daley-hopes-inspire-young-lgtbq-people-tokyo-olympics-win-2021-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">he felt empowered to be a "gay man and also an Olympic champion."</a><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2021/08/07/diving-tokyo-olympics-2020-live-tom-daley-gb-final/">Read the full report from The Telegraph here.</a>

Tom Daley condemned anti-LGBTQ remarks aired during Russian TV Olympic coverage: 'It takes a lot to come out and speak openly'

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>Russian state TV host Olga undefined mocked the military vehicles in President Donald Trump's "A Salute to America" display, saying, "There are no cannons, and their optics have been glued on with adhesive tape."</li><li>The hosts also called the display "weak" and "low energy."</li><li>President Donald Trump's July 4 festivities featured military flyovers, Bradley fighting vehicles, and M1A2 tanks.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/">Visit Business Insider's hoepage for more stories.</a></li></ul>Russian state media mocked President Donald Trump's "Salute to America" July 4th event, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/07/04/russian-state-run-media-took-trumps-july-event-an-opportunity-troll-us/?utm_term=.2574f66960dc">The Washington Post</a> reported Thursday.The hosts of Rossiya 1's "60 Minutes" program, Yevgeny Popov and Olga Skabeyeva, both scoffed at the footage of tanks rolling into Washington, DC ahead of Trump's military extravaganza."The greatest parade of all times is going to be held today in Washington, that is what our Donald Trump has said. The American president announced he would show us the newest tanks," Popov said.&#xa0;Popov told the audience that, "these are Abrams and Sherman tanks, used during World War II and withdrawn from service in 1957." Trump had previously said <a href="https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2019/07/02/trump-touts-brand-new-world-war-ii-era-tank-display-at-fourth-of-july-celebration/">both these retired tanks would be in the parade</a>, but more modern equipment -<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-tons-of-military-gear-dc-july-fourth-2019-7"> Bradley fighting vehicles and M1A2 tanks</a> - actually featured in the spectacle.Skabeyeva told the audience, "the paint on these vehicles is peeling off. There are no cannons, and their optics have been glued on with adhesive tape."Skabayeva also tweeted footage of a military vehicle being transported by truck in Washington, with the caption, "Putin's America."According to Julia Davis, a writer who studies Russian disinformation tactics, Russian state <keyword id="6355005" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="news">news</keyword> also criticized Trump's display as being "low energy" and "weak," with "rusty tanks."&#xa0;"The hosts LOL at Trump's claim about '<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-explodes-with-jokes-memes-on-revolutionary-war-airport-stories-2019-7">revolutionary war airports</a>' &amp; other historical flubs. 'There's your city upon a hill, there's your world leader-and Martians have been defeated,'" Davis tweeted. As the Washington Post points out, displays of military might <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-t80-tanks-dancing-ballet-cut-fruit-2019-7">are much more common in Russia than they are in the US</a> and are an opportunity to show off advances in military technology. Rossiya 1 host Skabayeva scoffed that the condition of US military machinery is less important to Trump than "that the parade takes place with much fanfare."The demonstration has had its <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tanks-in-washington-dc-trump-parade-2019-7">fair share of critics </a>stateside in the lead-up to the July 4 celebrations. Trump visited France in 2017 and was wowed by their Bastille Day festivities, expressing his desire for a parade of his own. But a November 2018 parade was scrapped because of its exorbitant cost. The cost of&#xa0; Thursday's festivities <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/dod-wont-know-cost-of-july-4-event-until-after-2019-7">are as yet unknown</a>, but the Pentagon will be footing the bill for the military displays, which featured <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/military-flyovers-trump-salute-to-america-fourth-of-july-event-2019-7">all five branches of the military</a>.<div></div><div></div> <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/america-is-the-land-of-opportunity-robert-herjavec-2016-3">'Shark Tank' star Robert Herjavec explains what makes America great</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

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