In Rare Move, Russian TV Cuts Putin Mid-Speech

Russia Ukraine War: As the Russian leader Vladimir Putin was addressing crowds, state television switched to showing a clip of patriotic music.

Russian state television cut President Vladimir Putin's speech mid-sentence as he was addressing tens of thousands of supporters at Moscow's main football stadium on Friday.

As the Russian leader was addressing crowds, state television switched to showing a clip of patriotic music from earlier in the event.

Putin was cut mid-sentence as he was saying: "It so happened that the beginning of the operation coincided by chance with the birthday of one of our outstanding military..."

Russian state television is tightly controlled and such interruptions are highly unusual.