On Monday night, an unexpected person is said to have appeared behind the news anchor on the state-run Russian news channel Kanal ein, or Pervyj Kanal.
The channel is one of Russia’s largest news channels.
“Stop the war”
The woman behind the news anchor held up a poster with the message “do not believe in propaganda” and “stop the war” in Ukraine.
The markings were quickly cut off.
It appears in a video published on Twitter.
According to the state-run Russian news agency TASS, the woman is employed by the channel and her name is Marina Ovsjannikova.
Before Ovsjannikova broke into the broadcast, she uploaded a video online.
In the video, she says that “what is happening in Ukraine is criminal” and blames Russia and especially President Vladimir Putin.
According to TASS, Ovsjannikova is custody after the incident on the TV channel.
CENSORED: Reports in the Russian media have been leaked.
Photo: Screenshot
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The news channel Prevyj, which describes the Russian invasion as a “special operation” to “denazify” Ukraine, says that they will investigate the incident, reports Reuters.
In the coverage of the case in Russian media, the woman with the poster is censored so that it is not possible to read her message.
Strikes hard on protesters
On March 4, a new law was passed in Russia, which makes it possible to punish people with 15 years in prison for providing “incorrect information” about the war in Ukraine.
Russian police are now cracking down on protesters in Russia.
So far, almost 15,000 people have been arrested in Russia for protesting against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to the organization OVD-info.
A video from an activist group shows how little it takes before people are arrested.
Last week, a woman was sentenced to pay a fine of 30,000 rubles, around 2400 kroner, for writing “No to war” in the snow at the foot of a Lenin statue in the city of Krasnoyarsk in Siberia.
She was among the first to be convicted of violating the new law.
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