Tina Kandelaki, Russian TV presenter
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Tina Kandelaki, a Russian TV presenter of Georgian origin, supports the Russian invasion of Ukraine and is widely involved in spreading Kremlin propaganda.
On the very first day of the Russian Federation’s full-scale war against Ukraine, Kandelaki said that Ukraine was allegedly filled with weapons that it used to shell Donbas. She also noted that the occupiers “will not touch ordinary Ukrainians” but will only destroy weapons brought to Ukraine from abroad.
Also, at the beginning of the full-scale war, Kandelaki published a post on her pages in social networks supporting such actions of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. She cynically urged Russians not to believe the terrible videos where Ukrainians tell how Russians kill civilians. At the same time, the TV presenter said that the various videos with the screams and cries of Ukrainians who suffered from the occupiers were “fake” and “a virus that was created to confuse everyone.”
Kandelaki urged citizens of the aggressor country of the Russian Federation to write angry comments on social networks about the fact that “Ukraine has bombed Donbas for 8 years” if they see posts with the content “Horror, how ashamed of Russia I am, sorry for Ukrainians.”
During a speech at the political concert “For a world without Nazism” at Luzhniki in Moscow, which the aggressor country Russia held on 18 March 2022 and dedicated to the illegal annexation of Crimea, Kandelaki talked about the alleged “unfair spread of Russophobia in the world.” She recalled that Russian athletes were banned from participating in many international competitions and added that it was apparently only because they spoke Russian.
Main statements
1. She stated that Ukraine was filled with weapons, and that the Russian Federation invaded Ukrainian territories only in order to destroy these weapons (24 February 2022):
2. She urged Russians not to believe videos of Ukrainians screaming and crying that the occupiers are killing them – she called such videos staged and viral (25 February 2022):
3. She supported the Russian Federation’s war against Ukraine and expressed misunderstanding why Russia was so hated for it (4 March 2022):
4. She claimed about the allegedly unjust Russophobia in the world. She said that the Russians were trying to “delete, like an account in social networks” (18 March 2022):
5. She declared about Nazism and external management of Ukraine by other states (21 September 2022):
