A brave protester interrupted an evening broadcast on Russian state TV network Channel One, holding a sign that read “no war”.
The woman has since been identified as Marina Ovsyannikova, an editor at the channel.
Before going on-air, she shared a video on social media completely denouncing the invasion, explaining she is ashamed to have worked for “Kremlin propaganda”.
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As Ms Ovsyannikova crashed the broadcast, she could be heard chanting “stop the war, no to war” while holding the banner.
The woman, Marina Ovsyannikova interrupted the channel’s main news programme with an extraordinary protest against Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
The news anchor continued to read from her teleprompter speaking louder in an attempt to drown out Ovsyannikova, but her protest could be seen and heard for several seconds before the channel switched to a recorded segment.Ovsyannikova also released a pre-recorded video via the OVD-Info human rights group in which she expressed her shame at working for Channel One and spreading “Kremlin propaganda.”
“Regrettably, for a number of years, I worked on Channel One and worked on Kremlin propaganda, I am very ashamed of this right now. Ashamed that I was allowed to tell lies from the television screen. Ashamed that I allowed the zombification of the Russian people. We were silent in 2014 when this was just beginning. We did not go out to protest when the Kremlin poisoned [opposition leader Alexei] Navalny,” she said.
“What is happening in Ukraine is a crime and Russia is the aggressor,” she said. “The responsibility of this aggression lies on the shoulders of only one person: Vladimir Putin.”
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