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Ukraine is working to create international judicial instruments to hold Russian propagandists accountable for the crime of genocide. Serhii Zhukov, an analyst at the Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security, stated this on air on the FREEDOM TV channel.
“Ukraine is working to create international judicial instruments to bring to justice functionaries of the Russian regime, including Russian propagandists who are criminals, let’s be honest, people who call for genocide of people who call for murder and other crimes that are elements of the crime genocide,” he said.
The analyst emphasized that the work of propagandists is part of the information support of the war waged by the Russian Federation against Ukraine.
“To wage a war of conquest, an unjust war that is accompanied by war crimes, a war that is accompanied by acts of genocide, you need someone to motivate the perpetrators of all these deeds. Naturally, propagandists play this role of motivators, so that Russians, firstly, voluntarily join the army, enroll, sign contracts so that once in the army, they, without hesitation, carry out those criminal orders that they receive, and so on. And, of course, the factor of impunity, the factor of big money, naturally also plays a role,” Zhukov said.
In his opinion, until recently, Russian propagandists were confident that they were beyond the reach of international law, but now they already feel a certain fear of responsibility.
Zhukov also noted that the calls of Russian propagandists in various talk shows to actually commit crimes in Ukraine are part of state policy, since they follow the rhetoric of representatives of the Putin regime.
“These are not excesses, these are not accidents, these are not some kind of mistakes, these are all part of state policy, which is aimed at destroying not only the Ukrainian state, which the Russian Federation does not hide, but also at the destruction of the Ukrainian people,” the analyst emphasized.
He also drew attention to the fact that Russian propaganda has been introducing such narratives since the early 2000s.
According to Zhukov, the statement by Russian President Vladimir Putin on denazification, made on February 24, 2022, is a direct statement of intentions to commit genocide in Ukraine.
“For the simple reason that in Putin’s understanding and in the understanding of modern official Kremlin rhetoric, Nazis are not carriers of Nazi ideology, but Nazis are all Ukrainians who consider themselves Ukrainians. These are all Ukrainians who do not want and do not consider themselves Russian. These are all Ukrainians who believe that Ukraine has the right to its own state and to the existence of a state,” the analyst said.
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