They were not going to take Kyiv in three days: the main Russian propagandist suddenly changed his rhetoric

Where did they get that from?" — said Solovyov on the air of the Voskresny Vecher program on the Rossiya 1 TV channel. The propagandist focused on the fact that the war with Ukraine is dragging on and will continue for a long time. "It is necessary to understand that the war is for a long time. And it is right that they have now started working with the people's militia.

In my opinion, it is enough to deceive ourselves - what year is it in the army? It is clear that the term of service should be increased. It is obvious that it is a ridiculous situation when people who have been trained for a year, after that, "go to the country", while the country is at war. This is 140,000 every six months," said Solovyov. He stated that these 140,000 trained Russians would now be "fundamentally important" for the war against Ukraine.

There is no longer any talk of "taking Kyiv in three days". "For some reason, they believe that we were going to take Kyiv in three days, conquer all of Ukraine and go further to Poland. Where did they get that from?" he said.

The tone was set by another Russian propagandist, the editor-in-chief of the RT TV channel Margarita Simonyan back on April 11, 2021, when on the air of the "Evening with Volodymyr Solovyov" program on the Rossiya-1 TV channel, she said: "In a hot war, we will defeat Ukraine in 2 days. Why should we win it, my lord? Well, Ukraine. . .

" Then they discussed the prospect of an escalation of the conflict in Donbas, and Simonyan used an ironic emphasizing the supposedly inevitable and easy victory of Russia. This predicted the events of February 24, 2022, but after the start of a full-scale war against Ukraine, the rhetoric of Russian propagandists changed somewhat. Although not immediately.

At the beginning of February 2022, the President of Belarus Oleksandr Lukashenko Oleksandr Lukashenko declared: "Ukraine will never fight with us. This war will last for a maximum of 3-4 days. " Artem Sheinin, host of "Time Will Tell" spoke on Channel One in early February 2022: "Kyiv will fall in one and a half to two days or three to four days.

" Political scientist Oleg Matveichev stated around February 27, 2022: "Ukraine will not be able to resist for 10 days, and now only three days have passed. " This rhetoric was also used by other Russian propagandists. And Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief a year later, visiting Volodymyr Solovyov again on his show, reported that the Russian Armed Forces defeated Ukraine in the first 2-3 days when they took Gostomel.

According to Simonyan, Russia is no longer at war with Ukraine, but with NATO countries. "We are not at war with any Ukraine. We defeated Ukraine as such in the first 2-3 days when we took Gostomel, when we completely disarmed, in fact, Ukraine, destroying its main military forces. And then the war with NATO began," Simonyan said. But in the end, the rhetoric changed, and the same propagandists began to deny that they had said such things at all.

And to declare that such a narrative did not appear in Russia at all. We will remind, on the night of November 2, the oil terminal in Tuapse in the Krasnodar region of the Russian Federation was attacked by 12 drones. Six targets were hit, of which five were ships of various purposes, and the sixth was moorings and an oil pipeline. And on the night of November 3, social networks reported on the attack of drones on military facilities of the Russian Federation in Saratov and Engels.