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Russia’s relentless TV propaganda has entered a heavily depressed new era.
The trend began last month when audio from a duo of Russian pranksters apparently tricking the Italian prime minister into making an unguarded remark surfaced.
In the clip, which was recorded in September, Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexei Stolyarov (known as Vovan and Lexus) are posing as African diplomats and a voice that sounds like Meloni candidly admits that fatigue has set in with respect to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: “There is a lot of tiredness on all sides.”