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Woman Runs Onto Russian TV News Set Brandishing Antiwar Poster
Russian state-run news agency says she was detained by police
A woman identified as a Russian state TV employee interrupted a live broadcast brandishing a poster against the war in Ukraine; attacks on Kyiv intensify, hitting a tram and residential areas; some EU leaders travel to Kyiv as diplomatic efforts continue. Photo: ReutersTHE WALL STREET JOURNAL INTERACTIVE EDITION
A woman ran onto the set of an evening news program on Russian state television’s flagship Channel One on Monday holding a poster reading: “No war. Stop the war. Don’t believe propaganda. They lie to you here. Russians against war.” She yelled: “Stop the war, no to war” before the camera cut away.
Russian state-run news agency TASS cited a law-enforcement source as saying the woman worked for the channel. The protester, identified as Marina Ovsyannikova, was detained and taken to a Moscow police station, according to TASS and OVD-Info, a human-rights group that tracks demonstrations and helps protesters find lawyers.
Human-rights lawyers said Tuesday they had yet to determine Ms. Ovsyannikova’s whereabouts, after failing to find her at the police station on Monday.
Russia’s Investigative Committee is looking into charging her under a law signed by President Vladimir Putin earlier this month that imposes a prison sentence of up to 15 years for anyone convicted of knowingly disseminating false information and data about the use of Russia’s armed forces, TASS reported.
Russia has sought to silence any information about the war that doesn’t follow the Kremlin’s narrative that the invasion is a special military operation aimed at liberating breakaway republics in eastern Ukraine.
OVD-Info estimates that nearly 15,000 protesters have been detained at rallies since the invasion of Ukraine began on Feb. 24. Some two dozen independent Russian media organizations have since been forced to shut down or chosen to stop operations. Facebook,Twitter and Instagram have been blocked in the country. The government says more than 3,000 people were detained during antiwar protests on March 6.
State-backed and independent polling shows that around 60% of Russians support the invasion.
OVD-Info shared a video that Ms. Ovsyannikova had purportedly recorded before her protest. A Facebook profile using that name shows a picture of the woman wearing the same necklace—featuring the colors of the Russian and Ukrainian flags—that she had on in the TV appearance.
Within two hours of the incident, more than 15,000 people had left comments under the photo on the Facebook page. “Amazed at your courage,” read one comment. “Thank you very much for the truth.”
Media coverage of Russian troops invading Ukraine is unfolding differently in Russia than in the U.S. Using maps and disinformation, many television programs are shaping public opinion by justifying Moscow’s decision to attack its neighbor. Photo composite: Sharon ShiTHE WALL STREET JOURNAL INTERACTIVE EDITION
OVD-Info released a videotape that it said was made by the woman. “What’s happening in Ukraine right now is a crime, and Russia is the aggressor country,” she says. “The responsibility for this aggression is on the conscience of one person, and this person is Vladimir Putin.”
The woman said her father is Ukrainian and her mother Russian. She said she is ashamed to work for “Kremlin propaganda,” and called on Russians to demonstrate against the war. “It’s only in our power to stop this. Go to protests; don’t be scared. They can’t arrest us all.”
In an address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he is grateful to Russians “who do not stop trying to convey the truth, real facts to their friends and loved ones…And personally to the woman who entered the studio of Channel One with a poster against the war.”
Write to Evan Gershkovich at evan.gershkovich@wsj.com
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