It’s not wise to mention Russia’s failures on state television in that country, but live reporting isn’t easy.
One war correspondent is likely in hot water with Vladimir Putin after reporting Russia’s armed forces have suffered “huge” losses in the war against Ukraine.
Alexander Sladkov was reporting from the Donbas region, when he made the comments.
“People here are waiting for us to get started, for us to strike with such force that the enemy ends up on its back, in other words, in a knockout,” Sladkov told viewers of a Russian state TV channel during a live broadcast, according to the NewYork Post.
“We’re losing a huge number of people, we have wounded,” Sladkov said. That type of transparency — Ukraine has scored major battlefield victories recently — is not welcomed by Russian authorities.
That’s probably why Sladkov tried to backtrack, saying: “We’re having great successes, we’re having great successes, but we’re not …”
It was here that Sladkov tried to switch to a different topic. He messed up again, though, saying Russia “didn’t finish the job … we’d like a knockout,” when discussing strikes on Ukraine’s energy sector.
Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovich said this week that so many Russian troops are laying down their weapons and surrendering that Ukraine is running out of space to house them, according to the Post.
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