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The Krasovsky case is a political scandal which was caused by a statements made by Russian propagandist Anton Krasovsky on October 20, 2022 who said that Ukrainian children who hate Russia should be drowned and burned. The scandal caused a wide public outcry both in Russia and Ukraine. The comments were made in the context of the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Lukyanenko replied that in Russia “traditionally they used rods” for punishment, to which Krasovsky said that children could also be burned: “Each hut there is called Smerekov’s hut. And right into this Smerekov’s hut to hammer and burn.”
After the release of the program, Krasovsky wrote on the Telegram channel that he had “a wonderful broadcast with Sergei Lukyanenko,” but then deleted this message.
After attention to the release with Krasovsky and Lukyanenko, the RT channel removed the recording of the broadcast. Excerpts from the program are still available online.
On 23 October, RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan described Krasovsky's statement as "wild and disgusting" and suspended his work on RT, though on 26 October she suggested forgiving him, as Orthodox Christianity requires.
On the same day, Krasovsky apologized:
Krasovsky's comments were heavily criticized by Russian media, journalists and bloggers, including the Moskovskij Komsomolets newspaper , journalist Maxim Kononenko and by Lukyanenko himself.
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