Before the host intervenes and denies it, a pundit on Russian official television appears to have revealed that the panellists weren’t intended to bring up the liberated city of Lyman.
Maxim Yusin, a foreign policy specialist, asserts that Russians likewise think the conflict is not going well for their nation.
He says on the show: “I see the dynamics of the military action on the front.
“We aren’t talking about what is happening near Lyman.”
The host then interjects with: “Who forbade you to talk about it?”
Russian troops pulled out of the eastern city of Lyman due to the risk of being encircled by Ukraine’s forces.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday the city had been “fully cleared” of Putin’s troops.
Mr Yusin later said on the Russian state TV broadcast: “Ask anyone here, when they’re in the make-up room.
“I think anyone will honestly admit they don’t know whether the mobilisation will help us or not, to change the course of military actions.
“It’s easy to say ‘after the liberation of Zaporizhzhia’.
“Yeah, try liberating it, the way everything is going.”
The host Andrey Norkin also said at one stage the Ukrainians are “planning to declare war against Russia” before another pundit suggest Ukraine might start bombing Moscow.
Retired four-star US army general Barry R McCaffrey shared the video and said it shows “Russian State TV is starting to fragment.”
He continues: “Lyman a disaster for the Russians. The Kherson pocket could lose 15,000 Russian prisoners. The mobilisation a disaster. All pressures on Putin criminal action might generate a desperate reaction. He’s unravelling.”
