Fired RT employee who called for Ukrainian children to be 'drowned' posts apology video
Anton Krasovsky, the now-former broadcasting director for the Russian-language branch of the Russian state propaganda network RT who was fired Monday after calling for Ukrainian children to be “drowned” and “burned,” posted a new apology video on his Telegram channel.
The four-and-a-half minute video is labeled “Everything I wanted to write but couldn’t.” In it, Krasovsky says the following (abridged):
I’m an idiot. I didn’t just cross the line — I unintentionally erased it. I’m thinking about every child, every mother, every family. And I’m also thinking about and suffering for every child on the other side [of the border], dreaming about a world in which no children are dying. Believe me: the tears of every baby are my tears, my nightmare. I don’t wish death on anybody, not on anybody.
I go on the air dozens of times each month, and from time to time, I get carried away somewhere by the devil who sits on my shoulder, as Dostoevsky wrote. And in this case, he carried me away. Sometimes I try to decide whose life is more important, more necessary, more correct. I’m an idiot. There are no such lives.
I’m not asking for forgiveness; I’m asking for understanding. I’m asking you to understand an idiot. I feel guilty towards my friends, towards my comrades, and towards the team at RT. I feel guilty towards all of the mothers who listened to my words in horror. I’m guilty and I’ll carry this guilt with me; it will be in my dreams and in my sorrows for the rest of my life: I’m guilty. I’m not sure if I can atone for it. I always wanted to be better than the enemy. My country wanted to be better than the enemy, and I’m an idiot; I mixed good with evil and screwed up. I don't know whether I can be forgiven. I’ll never forgive myself.
