A report on the show “News of the week”hosted by Yevgeny Kiselev, considered one of the most fervent propagandists of the Kremlin, on the state television channel Rossia 1 caused a lot of ink to flow in the Russian opposition media but also abroad. “Russian propaganda reaches new heights”writes the news site Boulevard Bulgaria of Sofia, while Francis Scarr, in charge of following the official Russian media on behalf of the BBC, exclaims: “You can not make that up. Last night, Russian state television aired a report about the windfall ‘benefits’ of your son’s death in Ukraine. You can buy a Lada with the compensation the state gives you!”, he wrote on his Twitter account.
This report, broadcast on July 17 in the evening and which can be seen here from 1:24, recounts with great emphasis the drama of a family in a small village in the Saratov region. One of the sons died in the early days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Sergeant Alexei Malov, aged