This master's thesis aims to provide a brief overview of how Russia's Channel One (Perviy Kanal), a national television broadcasting channel, uses propaganda to influence public opinion in Russia concerning the war in Ukraine. Research on this topic can provide us with significant insight into the proliferation of propaganda, as well as the role that television broadcasting services play in this. This topic is approached through the method of critical discourse analysis, which means that the language used by Channel One is analyzed relative to its social context. This thesis attempts to identify the characteristics and specifics of the discourse used by Channel One when reporting about the aggression on Ukraine. Furthermore, this paper also focuses on recognizing propaganda techniques used by the aforementioned television program. For this paper, a TV episode of a news program was selected as the unit of analysis. The analysis encompasses the period between 24. 2. 2022 and 24. 2. 2023 including these dates, covering the key moments during the first year of the war. Analyzing a total of 287 TV coverages, it was found that Channel One utilizes sensational reporting when covering the war in Ukraine. The reports also use unprofessional language which attempts to make an emotional appeal to its audience. Finally, Channel One employs other propaganda tactics, such as polarization, role reversal, and demonization of the enemy. The given findings strongly allude to government-controlled propaganda which aims to justify and legitimize the aggression against Ukraine.