– Stop the war! No to war, repeated the woman who appeared behind the news anchor in the middle of one of Russia’s main news broadcasts on Monday night.
In front of her she held a poster with the inscription «No War. Stop the war. Do not believe the propaganda. Here they are lying to you ».
According to the Italian newspaper the Republic The woman is identified as Marina Ovsyannikova, a journalist employed by Channel One.
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Before interrupting the TV broadcast, Ovsyannikova published a video in which she says, among other things, that she is embarrassed to work for the Kremlin’s propaganda.
– What is happening in Ukraine now is a crime. And Russia is the attacker. And the responsibility for this attack lies on the conscience of only one person, and this person is Vladimir Putin, Ovsyannikova says in the video.
She goes on to say that she has a Ukrainian father and a Russian mother.
– In recent years, I have unfortunately worked in Channel One, where I did propaganda for the Kremlin. Now I am very ashamed of this. I’m ashamed to have allowed lies to be told from the TV screens. I am ashamed that I allowed to brainwash Russians, she says, before continuing that they were silent both during the annexation of Crimea in 2014, and when Navalny was poisoned.
– We only silently observed this inhuman regime. And now the whole world has turned to us.
– Ten generations of our descendants will not be able to wash themselves clean from this shame, from this war, in which fraternal people are killed. We are Russians, thinking and wise people, only we can stop this madness. Go out in protest demonstrations, do not be afraid of anything. They can not put us all in jail.
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According to Sky News`information she was apprehended after storming the TV broadcast.
The state TV channel Channel One must, according to The Guardian be the main source of news for many millions of Russians, and strictly follow the Kremlin’s line.
Here, the Russian invasion of Ukraine is described as “a special operation”, launched to “denazify” Ukraine, writes Sky News.