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A RUSSIAN media worker who photobombed a news broadcast with an anti-war protest has been arrested.
Marina Ovsyannikova, an employee of Russia’s Channel One, stood behind a news presenter during a Monday broadcast with a sign reading: “Stop the war! Don’t believe propaganda! They lie to you here.”
She shouted “No to war — stop the war” and was visible to the channel’s millions of Russian viewers for a few seconds before it switched to a different report.
Russia’s Tass news agency cited police sources as saying she had been arrested and may face charges under new legislation making discrediting the armed forces or spreading “false information about the use of the armed forces” illegal and subject to jail sentences of up to 15 years.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky publicly thanked Ms Ovsyannikova for her action in his nightly address to Ukrainians, saying he was “grateful to those Russians who do not stop trying to convey the truth.”
In a prerecorded video she posted after her protest, Ms Ovsyannikova said that she had one Ukrainian and one Russian parent and the two nations were “never enemies.”
