LONDON –
Russian satellite television’s menus were changed on Monday to show Moscow viewers reports of the war in Ukraine: “You have blood on your hands,” according to Reuters screenshots.
The photos show menus on Moscow’s satellite television on Victory Day, when Russia celebrates the 77th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany, with each channel showing anti-war slogans.
“In your hands is the blood of thousands of Ukrainians and hundreds of dead children,” reads a slogan.
“Television and the authorities are lying. Not the war.”
The slogans appeared just before the Red Square Victory Day parade, in which President Vladimir Putin compared the war in Ukraine to the Soviet battle for Adolf Hitler’s victory in World War II.
It was not immediately clear how the slogans came about. The Interfax news agency reported that the slogans also appeared on cable television after they were hacked.
A Russian news website also featured anti-war material that is deeply critical of Putin. It was not immediately clear how the negative articles appeared. They quickly disappeared.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24 killed thousands, displaced millions and raised fears of the most serious clash between Russia and the United States since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
Putin says a “special military operation” in Ukraine is necessary because the United States used Ukraine to threaten Russia, and Moscow had to defend itself against the persecution of Russian-speakers.
He described the conflict as an inevitable confrontation with the United States, which he accused of threatening Russia by interfering in its backyard and expanding NATO’s military alliance.
NATO and Ukraine deny being a threat to Russia. Ukraine says it is fighting an imperial-style seizure of land and that Putin’s allegations of genocide are nonsense.
Report by Guy Falkonbridge; Edited by Frank Jack Daniel
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