The Russian state television journalist who took a dramatic stand against President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine during a live broadcast says it was ...
"Unfortunately, for the past few years, I have been working on Channel One and doing Kremlin propaganda, and now I am very ashamed of it," she said in the video. So I moved very quickly and I passed by the security and showed my poster," said Ovsyannikova. She was "afraid until the last minute," she added. by a district court in Moscow of organizing an "unauthorized public event." This man is Vladimir Putin," Ovsyannikova said. "It's a shame that I allowed to speak lies from the TV screens, ashamed that I allowed to zombify Russian people."
Marina Ovsyannikova, a producer at Russian-owned news station Channel One, was detained and fined after she urged Russians to protest in support of Ukraine.
In the video, Ovsyannikova is seen wearing a necklace that combines the colours of the Ukrainian and Russian flags: blue, yellow, red and white. Go to the protests. “Only we have the power to stop all this madness. “I am ashamed that I’ve allowed the lies to be said on the TV screens. In the foreground, longtime anchor Ekaterina Andreeva continued to read a piece about Russian efforts to stem the effects of punitive global sanctions. In an extraordinary display of public protest in support of Ukraine, an employee of Russian state TV’s Channel One interrupted a live news broadcast Monday evening, chanting, “Stop the war.
"I still believe that Russia committed a crime by attacking Ukraine," Ovsyannikova said in the courtroom.
The dissident, whose father is Ukrainian and mother is Russian, explained that she was interrogated for more than 14 hours while under arrest, and wasn’t allowed to call any of her family to tell them what was going on. “And the responsibility for this crime lies only on the conscience of one person, and that person is [Russia President] Vladimir Putin.” In addition to refusing to retract her statements and pleading not guilty, Ovsyannikova reiterated her viewpoints on the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine to the judge overseeing her case.
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This is just panic," Liliya Marynchak, a 45-year-old teacher in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, told PEOPLE of the moment her city was bombed — one of numerous accounts of bombardment by the Russians. "The war in Ukraine was like a trigger for me. With NATO forces massing in the region around Ukraine, various countries have also pledged aid or military support to the resistance. The Russian attack on Ukraine is an evolving story, with information changing quickly. It's really beyond the pale." They're lying to you here."
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It is important for them that we not believe that one woman can go against a huge machine, that she can break away from the system and defy it. Many Russians believed in these lies, and because they believed in them it made them true as far as the government was concerned. But the situation has started changing, the system cracked and crashed for a moment, and we say it could be disenchanted and even destroyed. In my opinion this is a ridiculous assumption, itself rooted in Kremlin propaganda – in this case the idea that anything out of the ordinary that happens they must control. It will only benefit them for us to think this is a setup and that they control everything. There has been a lot of talk that that this could have been a staged performance.
Kevin Paffrath, who goes by Meet Kevin, on the streaming site, told Fox News he would be willing to pay up to 1 million rubles to the journalist.
I am ashamed that I let the Russian people be zombified. I am ashamed that I’ve allowed the lies to be said on the TV screens. It's what we need to help wake up that middle and older age group in Russia that's brainwashed by the Russian media, who actually think that this is some form of liberation for Ukrainians."