The Kremlin said on Thursday that many people in Russia were showing themselves to be “traitors” and pointed to those who were resigning from their jobs and leaving the country.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov made the comments a day after President Vladimir Putin delivered a stark warning to Russian “traitors” who he said the West wanted to use as a “fifth column” to destroy the country. “In such difficult times…many people show their true colors.
Very many people are showing themselves, as we say in Russian, to be traitors,” Peskov told reporters on a conference call. He was asked about Putin’s remark that Russia would undergo a natural and necessary “self-cleansing” as people were able to “distinguish the true patriots from the scum and the traitors.” Read more: Russia can withstand West’s sanctions, Putin says as Ukraine war rages on Peskov said: “They vanish from our lives themselves.
Some people are leaving their posts, some are leaving their active work life, some leave the country and move to other countries.