No, it does not work like that. You have to say something. Otherwise, it just hangs there in the room. So he decided to talk about it without naming it, moving past it, nice trick.
Again, Russia is not the Soviet Union or even fucking China. All these mfs on national tv are not afraid of FSB; they are not doing this shit because of fear; they are involved in genocidal propaganda because they love it, and money, of course. But I know that they are afraid that we will win (and we will) and hang them a la lanterne.
Though, the writing is on the wall. Everyone knows that Russians will hang them themselves and try to shift all the blame on Putin and TV. I hope no one will buy this shit; we won`t, for sure.