'TONE DEAF'
The View’s Joy Behar slammed for moaning Putin’s invasion of Ukraine could ruin her vacation to Italy
JOY Behar faced a furious backlash for her "tone deaf" complaint that Putin's invasion of Ukraine could ruin her summer vacation to Italy.
The View co-host made the controversial remarks on Thursday's episode of the talk show.
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"I'm scared of what's going to happen in western , too," Behar said.
"You plan a trip, you want to go there, I've wanted to go to Italy for four years and I haven't been able to make it because of the pandemic and now this. It's like, what's gonna happen there?"
The 79-year-old's comments came right after co-host Sunny Hostin was breaking down facts about Russia's military operation in .
"Estimates are 50,000 Ukrainians will be dead or wounded and this is going to start a refugee crisis in Europe," Hostin had said. "We're talking about 5million people that are going to be displaced. It's heartbreaking to hear what is going to happen."
Behar's words as her co-hosts were discussing invasion of Ukraine have prompted angry responses online.
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Sports commentator @KFCBarstool also weighed in.
"The true horror of the worldwide pandemic and invading Ukraine? Joy Behar hasn’t been able to take her trip to Italy," he wrote. "Thoughts and Prayers for Joy. We hope she makes it through this tragedy."
Comedian Tim Young called Behar "elitist trash.”
"Joy Behar is the perfect liberal Karen... she doesn't care about people getting killed in Ukraine, just that this might interrupt her trips to Italy," Young .
This is just the latest controversy surrounding The View.
Co-host Whoopi Goldberg was recently temporarily suspended after receiving backlash for comments she made about the Holocaust while on air.
Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, is currently under attack by groups of Russian troops wearing Ukrainian uniforms in the latest ploy by Vladimir Putin.
It comes as citizens were urged to take up arms, makeup Molotov cocktail firebombs, and use commercial drones to defend their homes.
Defense officials claimed that so far the Ukrainians have either killed, captured, or incapacitated 1,000 troops, something it bragged was Russia's biggest one-day loss in 30 years.
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At least 137 Ukrainians are already dead across the country at the hands of Putin's forces after the assault began at 3.30am on Thursday.
Kyiv faces an uncertain future as the country comes under attack from air, land and sea by Russia.
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