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2023-12-25 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Putin propagandist who called for Ukrainian children to be drowned is 'seriously ill' in hospital 'after being poisoned'

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A leading Putin propagandist who called for Ukrainian children to be drowned is 'seriously ill' after being poisoned, according to Ukrainian military intelligence.

Anton Krasovsky, 48, former director of broadcasting on the state TV channel RT, posted that he was recovering in hospital after losing consciousness.

But a source in the Defence Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine [HUR] alleged he 'continues to deteriorate' and claimed his most recent messages were likely 'not written by the propagandist himself'.

Krasovsky caused revulsion in October 2022 with his genocidal diatribe, saying Ukrainian children who saw Russians as occupiers under the Soviet Union should have been 'thrown in the Tysyna River with a strong current'.

The pro-war star presenter was given a five-year jail term in absentia by a court in Ukraine back in February over the comments. Ukraine's security service, the SBU, said at the time it was working to 'bring the culprit to justice'.

Krasovsky separately faced criticism after he called for burning Ukrainian children to death in huts in the Carpathian Mountains. 'Shove them right into their huts and burn them,' he said.

He subsequently apologised for the comments which caused outrage in Ukraine and around the world, and were seen as highlighting the barbarity of Vladimir Putin's propaganda machine.