and that soldier presumably would get $40,000. also saying there will be assurance for the soldiers, presumably he means in a medical context here. so putin really trying to keep the country on board, even while his saying it s going on track. the evidence, of course, we see and hear, it s not. and, of course, he denied hitting civilian targets again. to that point, nic, stand by. i want to get deeper intoes the elements of the putin propaganda machine. they warned extra measures would be taken against any unauthorized anti-war protests. the threat of arrest and aggressive prosecution, of course, part of how putin sto stifles dissent. at least 350 protesters were arrested yesterday. russia s second largest city st. petersburg. that according to local monitors. more than 7,000 anti-war protesters arrested over the past week but not a single of these detentions has been mentioned on russian state television. putin s iron grip is shielded by
screaming stop the war. the woman as i said is an editor there at the channel. she s been fined $280 for promoting protest legislation. listen to this. these were uneasy days of my life because i spent two days without sleep. the interrogation lasted more than 14 hours. i was not allowed to contact my relatives or provide with any help. i was in a tough situation. all the comments will be made tomorrow. i just need to rest today. martha: marc thiessen joins me now. fox news contributor. marc, welcome. obviously these are very brave acts of defiance on the part of anybody in russia who is getting in front of a tv camera. this is a brave woman. 100%. that means the amount of courage that it took to step up and defy the putin propaganda machine, which she said in that video that she posted that she was a
is true because they re close. and now on instagram, facebook, connection, you know. and of course i am close to i.t. army. it s new type of soldiers, you know. they soldiers too. this is innovation. did you see did you see the russian journalists protesting live on russian state tv? we re learning that she was questioned for more than 14 hours after that. yes, i saw. and someone tell me that this is fake because news not online always. but everybody, we online now. how do you get past the putin propaganda machine and spread the truth about what is taking place to the russian people?
doing in ukraine a war. but despite this fact, there have been thousands of people in russia who have demonstrated to say this is not being done in our name. i think it s important for the world to also hear those russian voices, not just of the putin propaganda machine. no question. you re right to raise that point and we have reported on this extensively. but i have to ask you how do you think it got to this point and how does your experience i guess provide maybe a lesson or warning sign missed along the way? it seems as though and we were talking to the widow of a putin critic who was poisoned and died, and you know, it seems as though what she told us is correct. there were so many warning signs missed, ignored by the world because it was just convenient perhaps to let putin s aggression just pass in previous episodes. what are your thaugtds?
as they can and doing a really good job of it, but they are angry and they want putin to pay. and i think that zelenskyy s probably reflecting that in a number of his addresses. zelenskyy, as you know, was a comedian and an actor before he was a president, before he was the greatest wartime leader of our generation. and his biggest audience was actually russia. he spent much of his time in russia touring and was very, very popular there. so, i don t know what the reaction in russia would be right now. the putin propaganda machine through channel one and some of the other state outlets is very, very powerful. but i think for those who are able to see his communication on telegram, i think it will at least make them stop and think. ambassador, former president