A woman holding a sign reading 'NO WAR' interrupted a live news broadcast on Russian state television Monday to denounce Russia's invasion of Ukraine
A woman holding a sign reading"NO WAR" interrupted a live news broadcast on Russian state television Monday to denounce Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
"Stop the war. Do not believe propaganda they tell you lies here," the sign reads."Russians against war," the last line of the sign says in English.The woman who carried out the bold act of defiance was identified as Maria Ovsyannikova, an employee of Russia Channel One, according to OVD-Info, an independent human rights protest-monitoring group. The outlet's content is tightly controlled by the Russian government.
American in Moscow reveals how Russians reacted to protester on state TV 00:56OVD-Info also obtained a video purportedly made by Ovsyannikova before she interrupted the news broadcast."What is happening now in Ukraine is a crime, and Russia is the aggressor country, and the responsibility for this aggression lies on the conscience of only one person. This man is Vladimir Putin," Ovsyannikova says in the video, noting that her father is Ukrainian, and her mother is Russian.
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