Rapper Ptakha (David Nuriev) said on NTV that young people do not understand the goals of the invasion of Ukraine and that they are being driven to war "like sheep to the slaughter." The musician appeared on the talk show “In the Image and Likeness?!” On December 14, the entire episode is available on the channel's website.
“Few people understand what we are doing there [in Ukraine]. Because they [Ukrainian troops] did not cross the border. Few understand. To leave against the backdrop of the Soviet Union, the ideology of the Soviet Union, that we are fighting the Germans, is very doubtful.
When asked by the presenter if he could make a video in which he would explain “what we are doing there,” Ptakha replied: “I don’t really understand it myself.” On the offer to go “there” himself and figure it out, the rapper replied:
"I was there. I have a lot of friends in the PMC Wagner are now, boys are fighting. They earn money. I'll honestly tell you who goes to Wagner – they go to earn money. Do you really think they're going for the flag there? <…>
Young people do not go there, they are driven there like sheep for slaughter. Everywhere, any region if you take. Yesterday, Dima Pavlyuk, with whom we were at the Last Hero, the kid has health problems, mental problems, he is currently on medication, he came to me yesterday after the draft board, he was sitting, he was just shaking. In front of his eyes, they took away a dude who has a heart valve … He has a package of documents [about the disease], and they tell him – well, you see, everything is fine, sign it. No medical exam, nothing. And everyone knows this. Here's a specific story for you. I understand that you are doing propaganda here. But deal with it in such a way that it works, promote what is, do not build what is not. People are driven like sheep. <…> What kind of Nazism are you fighting? Are you saying that all Ukrainians are Nazis?”
At the same time, Ptakha noted that, in general, he does not condemn the NWO: “I do not condemn the NWO, I am one of those people who supported the NWO. I started supporting the CBO after I saw how our boys were brought down there. ”
Propagandists, in continuation of Ptah's monologue, vied with each other shouting out historical facts about the Third Reich, the Nazis, mentioned the "Paulus army" and recommended Ptah to go to school.
Attempts to tell a version of events in Ukraine different from the official one on the air of Russian TV channels have been made before. So, in March, the editor of Channel One, Marina Ovsyannikova, during a live broadcast , appeared in the frame behind the back of the presenter Ekaterina Andreeva with a poster. It read: “Stop the war! Don't believe the propaganda, they lie to you here."
Ovsyannikova was fined under the article on “discrediting” the army and fired from her job. She, however, continued to oppose the war. After Ovsyannikova went to the picket with a poster “Putin is a murderer” and a story about the dead Ukrainian children, a criminal case was opened against her for “fakes” and sent under house arrest.
In October, Ovsyannikova escaped from custody and disappeared along with her 11-year-old daughter. Soon she was put on the federal wanted list and arrested in absentia.
