Brave editor storms Russian TV with sign saying ‘they’re lying to you’

An editor on one of many Kremlin’s foremost propaganda TV stations has staged a outstanding protest towards the conflict in Ukraine.

Marina Ovsyannikova gatecrashed the primary night information present on Channel 1, a mouthpiece for Vladimir Putin’s regime. 

She held up an indication behind the presenter which learn: ‘NO WAR. Cease the conflict. Don’t consider propaganda. They're mendacity to you right here.’

The protester might be seen and heard saying ‘cease the conflict’ for a number of seconds earlier than the channel switched to a unique report back to take away her from the display.

Impartial protest-monitoring group OVD-Data recognized her as an worker of the channel.

Pavel Chikov, head of Russia-based human rights group Agora, additionally confirmed her id.

He stated she is in police custody however stated the police are ‘hiding’ her from a lawyer despatched by the group.

The signal may land the producer in jail for 15 years beneath an authoritarian new regulation (Image: Channel 1)

In a video apparently posted on-line by Ms Ovsyannikova earlier than the protest, she stated: ‘What’s occurring in Ukraine is against the law, and Russia is the aggressor. The accountability for this aggression lies with one man – Vladimir Putin.’

She stated she had Ukrainian and Russian heritage and described the conflict as fratricidal, earlier than apologising for working for the propaganda station beforehand.

Russian information company Tass stated she could face fees beneath a regulation towards discrediting the armed forces, citing a regulation enforcement supply.

Beneath strict new legal guidelines handed after the invasion of Ukraine, talking out towards the conflict can land Russians as much as 15 years in jail.

State TV is the primary supply of stories for a lot of tens of millions of Russians, and carefully follows the Kremlin line that Russia was pressured to behave in Ukraine to demilitarise and ‘denazify’ the nation.

The Kremlin has barred the phrase ‘invasion’ or ‘conflict’ and as a substitute refers to it as a ‘particular navy operation’ designed to guard Russian-speakers in Jap Ukraine.

Current weeks have additionally seen entry to social media closely restricted as the federal government tries to regulate the narrative across the flagging marketing campaign.

.