#Russia Skabeeva now says that the “Crocus” suspects “hurt themselves while hiding on the trees” and ridicules how “the West is concerned our police didn’t handle them delicately enough”.
She of course conveniently skips ear amputation, beatings, genital connected to a field telephone and other forms of torture, which were shown on all Russian Telegram channels. But this likely indicates Kremlin social polls noted some level of disgust among Russian audience and decided it was over the top. Maybe the audience imagined who will be the next…
Skabeeva video: https://t.me/Netvru/29385 (in Russian)
100% agreed. On VK and Telegram I saw plenty of comments responding with anger or disgust to the torture videos. Some people were also showing some kind of compassion (which was in turn amplified by nationalists). You never know on Russian social media but the accounts seemed genuine, not bots.
@kravietz
There's a certain crowd even in Europe and in US who consumes all the propaganda garbage Russia throws at them and ask for more, and they might have even swallowed the Ukraine involvement, but after these self-incriminatory torture videos, it became too much even by their, let's be frank, not very high standards.