Process. a state department official telling cnn earlier today if that were to happen it s likely that a nato ally would be involved but noting that these kinds of attempts in the past, in the recent past, have failed. and, matt, as we watch this play out, watching a russian troop buildup, a tank buildup, artillery buildup, a ground war in the east. but russia today also testing an icbm, an intercontinental ballistic missile, sort of bragging about it. reporter: yeah. this is their icbm, a system vladimir putin has been bragging about going back several years now. the missile system itself is not new and the idea russia has icbms is not new. this is a concept going back decades. what is notable is this conspicuous timing of all of this. vladimir putin knows if he does a test like this in the middle of a war it might play well at home in state media propaganda and also sends a message to the west and to ukraine. maybe not more of a message than
We believe that they will target ukraine s capital kyiv, a city of 2.8 million incident people. reporter: biden saying the political and economic repercussions for russia would be severe, and that the western allies stand united. nd this is what the white house has been warning for weeks would happen, massive so-called false-flag operation underway in the russian-controlled east fake attacks being staged that could be used by the kremlin to justify an invasion. local and russian state media propaganda now in full swing. viewers have been shown video of emergency sirens blaring. and images of women, children, and the elderly, 700,000 people, being told to evacuate, but there is no credible sign of attacks underway. a massive explosion reported, but an a.p. reporter on the scene finding just a single destroyed car.
Editor has that. reporter: as president putin slaughtering ukraine stalls, his offensive at home to hide its brutality is ramping up. mark marking enemies russians who don t buy the propaganda. russian people especially are able to distinguish true patriots from ta raitors and wi spit them out like a gnat that accidently flew into their mouths. what is coming out of the mouths of putin s state media propaganda, is a full throated defense of russia s killing of ukrainian civilians. falsely claiming ukraine started the war. civilians are being used as human shields. putin s kremlin double down on the lie. blaming the u.s. and europe for the civilian death. the russian armed forces do
The state are many other russians who by the state media propaganda and think the state media propaganda and think we the state media propaganda and think we are fighting some phantom nazi threat, which typically, is nonsense, right? it typically, is nonsense, right? it is typically, is nonsense, right? it is nonsense. unequivocally. and there is a huge unequivocally. and there is a huge section in the middle he simply huge section in the middle he simply feel powerless to affect any kind simply feel powerless to affect any kind of change. they could io any kind of change. they could go out any kind of change. they could go out on any kind of change. they could go out on the streets and protest go out on the streets and protest and get sent to jail. it protest and get sent to jail. it wiii protest and get sent to jail. it will not change anything. for many years they have felt powerless about the direction of their powerless about the direction of their country an
Her lawyers are trying to find out where she is. she s speaking to multiple audiences, right? a message partly written in english, no war but clearly a message to russians and possibly a message to ukrainians as well. to see zelenskyy come out overnight thanking her and recognizing her bravery means this is seen not just in russia but around the world. to what extent does this breakthrough in russia. listen, marina is one of the bravest woman. you have an audience there with channel 1, state media propaganda that network, 130, 140 million russians. how many watched her? we know a lot. whether that resonated, what they thought of it because they quickly went to a package when she had 10 seconds after she came out. i m not sure how much that impacted viewership in terms of taking in what they just saw. but millions, tens of millions if not over 100 million people saw it. it was a thunder clap.