In a video posted on Twitter by the BBC’s Francis Scarr, a commentator on Russian state TV said, “Biden is of course our agent,” and that “maybe he’s really our guy.”

“Because in principle what Biden’s done didn’t even occur to any American president before him,” the commentator said. “That’s to say the sanctions imposed by Biden have led to our budget receiving record revenues. That’s to say, on account of Putin grabbing Europe with an iron fist, our oil revenues have grown so much that now, in the grand scheme of things, each day of the special military operation is bringing us money.”