A news channel in Russia was interrupted by an anti-war protester who warned viewers not to believe “propaganda” being broadcast.
Russia’s Channel One was interrupted by an employee carrying a huge placard which read “stop the war, don’t believe propaganda, they’re lying to you.”
Newsreader Ekaterina Andreeva was delivering her evening bulletin when the woman jumped out from behind while and producers scrambled to cut her off.
The demonstrator managed to enter the TV studio at the Ostankino Technical Center in Moscow and urged viewers that they being lied to.
Her message was written in Russian and English aimed at the channel’s millions of viewers – but producers quickly switched the broadcast to a clip of a hospital as they dealt with the situation.
The woman was later identified as Channel One employee Marina Ovsyannikova and she has reportedly since been detained.
The Russian news broadcast was interrupted by the anti-war protest
Russia has cracked down on independent journalism after reports were published communicating the Kremlin’s stalled war and large losses in Ukraine.
The Kremlin has come down hard on protestors and shut down the country’s independent media outlets.
In a video prior to the protest, the woman was said to be angry at the outlet’s reporting and apologised for its “propaganda”.
“Unfortunately for the last several years I worked at Channel One, promoting Kremlin propaganda and for that I am very ashamed right now,” she said in the clip.
The woman was later identified as Channel One employee Marina Ovsyannikova
“I am ashamed that I allowed lies to be told from TV screens, that I allowed Russian people to be zombified.
“We stayed quiet when all of this was just getting started in 2014.”
Channel One is the largest channel in Russia with an estimated 250million viewers across the globe.
New laws were passed several weeks ago which made it illegal to publish “false” information about the Ukraine “special operation.”
Those found to break the rules risk being handed a 15-year jail sentence for calling the invasion a “war.”
Echo of Moscow and TV Rain were forced to stop broadcasting following the new rules, while others still broadcasting in the country were made to repeat what they have been told by the Russian ministry of defence.
Russia Today has been banned throughout Europe after broadcasting pro-Russian news bulletins of the Ukraine invasion and parroting the Kremlin.
Meanwhile, antiwar protestors have also been policed by heavily armed police in major cities including the capital of Moscow.
One woman was seen being arrested seconds after she held up a small placard with the phrase “two words.”
Source: dailynet.co.uk
