Russian state TV propaganda declares World War 3 has BEGUN in rant against West as Putin reels from sinking of Moskva

RUSSIAN state TV propagandists have outrageously ranted that World War 3 has begun as they fume at the West after the sinking of prized warship Moskva. Olga Skabeyeva, one of Putin’s top media figures in the tightly controlled echo chamber of state-run Russian media, bizarrely claimed that war in Ukraine had escalated into a war against Nato. East2WestOlga Skabeyeva claimed that war in Ukraine had escalated into a war against Nato[/caption] Not known, clear with picture deskRussian state TV has claimed World War Three has already started after the sinking of the Moskva[/caption] APRussian missile cruiser Moskva seen on patrol in the Mediterranean Sea[/caption] She was fuming as Russia has been humiliated once again as the Black Sea fleet flagship Moskva was sent to the bottom. Putin’s propagandists are now desperately trying to distract from the tyrant’s military’s failures in a war which was sold the Russian people as being a quick victory in a matter of days. And so, Russia is trying to blame the West – despite nations like the US and UK staying out of the war beyond sending aide and weapons to Kyiv. Military commentator Dmitry Drozdenko said on separate state-run Channel 1:  “In actual fact a full-scale multi-level war is underway with the collective West. Read more on Ukraine GOTCHA! How ageing Russian warship was SUNK by Ukraine in biggest navy disaster since WWII KILLING FIELDS Mass grave of 400 Ukrainians dug up at Bucha in Russian atrocities probe “And the West has long been preparing for the war”. Anchor Olesya Loseva, host of Vremya Pokazhet, told viewers that the West was now supplying “zillions of weapons” to Ukraine. She claimed Ukraine was doing the West’s bidding by carrying out “yet more provocations, bloody, horrible, completely unthinkable.” These will “force people to shudder once again and say that Russia Is a country which is unworthy of even being on the world map and that all Russians should simply be wiped off the face of the earth”. Skabeyeva tried to say Ukrainians were delighted to see Russian troops in their country. Most read in The Sun SECRET TRIP Harry & Meghan visit Queen & Charles for 'olive branch' talks after Philip snub OH BABY! Love Island's Zara McDermott shares surprise pregnancy announcement GOTCHA! How ageing Russian warship was SUNK by Ukraine in biggest navy disaster since WWII GETTING LIPPY I went out after getting my lips done despite being warned not to drink MAC IS BACK BBC One confirms return of two huge game shows after years off screen SLAPPED DOWN Thandiwe Newton axed from film after row with Channing Tatum over Oscars slap She said: “For some reason ordinary Ukrainians themselves aren’t noticing any genocide. “In Kharkiv region they’re welcoming our soldiers like real liberators.  “People are coming out with Russian tricolours onto the streets where our military kit is.  “The people of Kharkiv are accusing not the Russian army of genocide, but the Ukrainian armed forces.” The death of GRU agent Bogomolov – whose funeral will be held tomorrow in Tambov region – highlights the crippling blows suffered by the elite spy service which the West believes was entrusted by Putin to seek to poison Sergei Skripal in Salisbury with novichok. It follows the death of 31-year-old GRU agent Captain Alexey Glushchak in mid-March.  Another to perish was Senior Lieutenant Anton Volkov, from Vladimir region.  In another incident, Captain Konstantin Druzhkov, 33, who used Stalin’s real surname Dzhugashvili  as his pseudonym was killed last month.  He died alongside GRU operatives Islam Abduragimov, 19, and Shamil Aselderov, age not specified.  Separately, a video that emerged last week showed multiple graves of recently killed GRU military intelligence special forces officers. They were from the 10th Separate Order of Zhukov Special Purpose Brigade. The GRU is seen as Russia’s most secretive and – until recently – most effective service.  Most read in The Sun SECRET TRIP Harry & Meghan visit Queen & Charles for 'olive branch' talks after Philip snub OH BABY! Love Island's Zara McDermott shares surprise pregnancy announcement GOTCHA! How ageing Russian warship was SUNK by Ukraine in biggest navy disaster since WWII GETTING LIPPY I went out after getting my lips done despite being warned not to drink MAC IS BACK BBC One confirms return of two huge game shows after years off screen SLAPPED DOWN Thandiwe Newton axed from film after row with Channing Tatum over Oscars slap Britain says a GRU hit squad was behind the poisoning with Novichok of Skripal – who had defected to Britain – and his daughter Yulia in  2018. In the Cold War, a GRU agent under diplomatic cover in London, Captain Yevgeny Ivanov triggered the fall of a Tory government after he seduced Christine Keeler, the lover of British war minister John Profumo. East2WestCaptain Alexey Bogomolov of the 25th separate regiment of GRU special forces GRU (Stavropol) was killed in Ukraine[/caption]