Now now, we don't know the context and the nuanced meanings in the original Russian

These comments were made on Russian state TV, meaning that their content could be taken as an official statement of Russian policy.

Putin's a reasonable guy -- I'm sure he will be very upset when he learns about this, and as a warning to others will personally place both commenters on half a day's worth of unpaid leave.

These people are fricking insane. They literally want to mass murder people as punishment for not hailing an invading army as liberators and greeting them with bread and salt.
Well, that's what happens when an ex-KGB agent gets control of an entire country.
Though, to be fair, a lot of Kremlin TV hosts (i.e. Solovyov) are intentionally crazy to make Putin look "reasonable" in comparison.

“So many in my country want to see all Ukrainians butchered. I’m not like them. See, all I want to do is annex half of the country and install a puppet dictator in the rest. For long-term peace. Also, it’s nuke o’clock.”

“Serious” folks: “Yeah sounds like a good compromise.”