A live news newsletter on Russia’s first public television channel was interrupted on Monday by an anti-war protester holding a sign behind the studio presenter and shouting slogans denouncing the war in Ukraine.
the sign, in In English and Russian, read: “NO WAR. Stop the war. Don’t believe the propaganda. They are lying to you here.” Another sentence, which sounded like like “Russians against war”, has been partly obscured.
The extraordinary act of contestation took place on day 19 of the war that began when Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine on February 24 in what he called a special military transaction.
“Stop the war. No to war”, couldon hear the demonstrator scream, while the news the anchor continued to read from son teleprompter.
VIDEO – Russian state television’s live newscast halted in studio by an anti-war protester holding up sign behind presenter reading “Stop the War” in English and Russian Photo.twitter.com/4woCFAUOTN
– DAILY SABAH (@DailySabah) March 15, 2022
The protester could be seen and heard for several seconds before the channel switches to another report to remove it from the screen.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked the protester in son night video address:
“I am grateful to these Russians who don’t stop trying to pass on the truth. To those who fight disinformation and tell the truth, real made to their friends and loved ones,” Zelenskyy said. “And personally to the woman who entered the studio of First channel with a poster against the war.”
Kira Yarmysh, Spokesperson for imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny, wrote on Twitter: “Wow this girl is cool.”
She posted a video of the incident, which quickly devastated up more more than 2.6 millions of views.
State television is the main The source of news for numerous millions of Russians and closely follows the Kremlin line that Russia’s actions in Ukraine must demilitarize and “denazify” the country, and defend Russian speakers there against “genocide.”
The woman was named by OVD-Info, an independent protest watchdog group and by the head of the Agora of Human Rights grouplike Marina Ovsyannikova, a employee of chain. Pavel Shikov, head of Agora said Ovsyannikova had been arrested and taken to a Moscow police station. Cup news the agency said it could face charges under a law against discrediting the armed forces, citing a police source.
The law passed on March 4, done public actions aimed at discrediting the Russian military are illegal and bans the propagation of false news or the “public dissemination of deliberately false information about use of the armed forces of the Russian Federation.” The offense is punishable by jail term of up at 15.
In a video recorded before the incident and posted onlinea woman who appeared to be Ovsyannikova described herself as a Channel One employee and said she was “ashamed to have worked for years spreading Kremlin propaganda.” She said that son father was Ukrainian, and her mother Russian.
“What’s going on now in Ukraine is a crime, and Russia is the aggressor country. The responsibility for that the aggression resides on consciousness of only one man, and that man is Vladimir Putin,” she said.
“Now the whole world turned away from us and the next ten generations of our descendants will not wash away the shame of this fratricidal war,” Ovsyannikova said, urging the Russians to go out and demonstrate.
The authorities broke up anti-war demonstrations. According to OVD-Info, which monitors protests and provides legal assistance to detainees, a total of 14,911 people have been arrested.
A live news newsletter on Russia’s first public television channel was interrupted on Monday by an anti-war protester holding a sign behind the studio presenter and shouting slogans denouncing the war in Ukraine.
the sign, in In English and Russian, read: “NO WAR. Stop the war. Don’t believe the propaganda. They are lying to you here.” Another sentence, which sounded like like “Russians against war”, has been partly obscured.
The extraordinary act of contestation took place on day 19 of the war that began when Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine on February 24 in what he called a special military transaction.
“Stop the war. No to war”, couldon hear the demonstrator scream, while the news the anchor continued to read from son teleprompter.
VIDEO – Russian state television’s live newscast halted in studio by an anti-war protester holding up sign behind presenter reading “Stop the War” in English and Russian Photo.twitter.com/4woCFAUOTN
– DAILY SABAH (@DailySabah) March 15, 2022
The protester could be seen and heard for several seconds before the channel switches to another report to remove it from the screen.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked the protester in son night video address:
“I am grateful to these Russians who don’t stop trying to pass on the truth. To those who fight disinformation and tell the truth, real made to their friends and loved ones,” Zelenskyy said. “And personally to the woman who entered the studio of First channel with a poster against the war.”
Kira Yarmysh, Spokesperson for imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny, wrote on Twitter: “Wow this girl is cool.”
She posted a video of the incident, which quickly devastated up more more than 2.6 millions of views.
State television is the main The source of news for numerous millions of Russians and closely follows the Kremlin line that Russia’s actions in Ukraine must demilitarize and “denazify” the country, and defend Russian speakers there against “genocide.”
The woman was named by OVD-Info, an independent protest watchdog group and by the head of the Agora of Human Rights grouplike Marina Ovsyannikova, a employee of chain. Pavel Shikov, head of Agora said Ovsyannikova had been arrested and taken to a Moscow police station. Cup news the agency said it could face charges under a law against discrediting the armed forces, citing a police source.
The law passed on March 4, done public actions aimed at discrediting the Russian military are illegal and bans the propagation of false news or the “public dissemination of deliberately false information about use of the armed forces of the Russian Federation.” The offense is punishable by jail term of up at 15.
In a video recorded before the incident and posted onlinea woman who appeared to be Ovsyannikova described herself as a Channel One employee and said she was “ashamed to have worked for years spreading Kremlin propaganda.” She said that son father was Ukrainian, and her mother Russian.
“What’s going on now in Ukraine is a crime, and Russia is the aggressor country. The responsibility for that the aggression resides on consciousness of only one man, and that man is Vladimir Putin,” she said.
“Now the whole world turned away from us and the next ten generations of our descendants will not wash away the shame of this fratricidal war,” Ovsyannikova said, urging the Russians to go out and demonstrate.
The authorities broke up anti-war demonstrations. According to OVD-Info, which monitors protests and provides legal assistance to detainees, a total of 14,911 people have been arrested.