In the evening newscast on Channel One, a story by Alexei Korepanov about the opening of the international forum “Without a statute of limitations. The genocide of the Soviet people by the Nazis and their accomplices during the Great Patriotic War: historical reflection and judicial practice”, timed to coincide with the anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials. The story included a fragment of Vladimir Putin's speech, before which the ticker at the bottom of the screen announced:
“President Vladimir Putin also spoke about this, whose father died on the Nevsky Piglet, breaking through the enemy ring.”
SOTA journalists drew attention to this by writing about it on Twitter. In fact, Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin, as reported in the decree on his awarding the medal "For Military Merit", November 17, 1941 on the Nevsky Piglet received a severe shrapnel wound to the left leg and foot. His son Vladimir was born in 1952.
On the website of Channel One, the ticker in the story has been corrected , there is no longer any mention of the death of Vladimir Putin Sr. In the version of the story shown later in the Vremya program, there is no running line, and the text that the correspondent says off-screen is supplemented: it refers specifically to a serious injury.
The person we see in the screenshot with the ticker is Ivan Melnikov, a former prisoner of the Nazi concentration camp; he has nothing to do with the statement about the "death" of Father Putin on the Nevsky Piglet.