MOSCOW: A live evening news programme on Russia’s state TV channel was intruded on Monday by a person who walked into the plant holding a bill protesting the war in Ukraine.
The moment was a parlous kick in a country where independent media has been blocked or shuttered and it has come illegal to contradict the government’s narrative of the war.
An anchor was speaking during the newscast when a woman appeared on camera behind her holding a sign with no war scribbled in English across the top, with a communication in Russian below calling on people not to believe Russian propaganda.
Within seconds, the news programme cut down to another scene.
Russia’s state Television regularly amplifies the government line that says colors entered Ukraine to save people fromneo-Nazis and to defend Russians from a country that was preparing to attack. The irruption of Ukraine is being characterised in Russia as a special military operation.”
An independent mortal rights group that monitors political apprehensions linked the woman as Marina Ovsyannikova.
The group, OVD-Info, posted on its website that Ovsyannikova, who linked herself as an hand of the station, was taken into police guardianship.
Ovsyannikova spoke out against the war in a videotape on OVD-Info’s website.
What’s going on now is a crime, she said. Russia is an raider country and Vladimir Putin is solely responsible for that aggression.
Speaking in a videotape address early Tuesday, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy praised Ovsyannikova.
