What happened to the Russian journalist who protested on television against the war in Ukraine?

The whereabouts of the journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, who on Monday stormed the set of a Russian television channel with a poster against the invasion of Ukrainereported this Tuesday the OvdInfolive portal, an NGO defending those arrested for the protests in Russia.

According to this portal, the journalist can be charged with a crime of “falsity” in connection with the actions of the Russian armycontemplated in the criminal code of the Russian Federation and affirms that, by virtue of the reform approved by the Duma on March 4, could be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison.

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The Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, described today as “hooligan” the attitude of Ovsyannikova: “As for this woman, it is an act of vandalism. The channel and the respective agencies are investigating it.”

Ovsyannikovaa journalist from Russian TV Channel 1, broke into the live broadcast of the Vremya nightly news yesterday shouting proclamations and brandishing a banner against ukrainian warafter which she was arrested.

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“No war. End the war. Don’t believe the propaganda. Here they are lying to you. Russians against war (Russians against war)”read the banner brandished by the journalist.

Simultaneously, the journalist shouted “stop the war” and “no war” several times in the middle of the broadcast.

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The channel, one of the main state television channels in Russiaconfirmed the fact and opened an investigation into what he called an “accident with an intruder.”

More than 15,000 people have been detained in Russia since the invasion of Ukraine began, twenty days ago now.

The journalist stated in a message on social networks, before carrying out her protest action, that what was happening in Ukraine was “a real crime” and that Russia was “the aggressor”.

“And the responsibility for this crime rests only on the conscience of one person, and that person is Vladimir Putin”said.

“Russia must immediately stop the fraticide war so that our closely united people can still reconcile,” The journalist said in her message broadcast on social networks and published on her Twitter account by the opposition portal OvdInfolive.

Another journalist, Lilia Gildeeva, who had worked for the channel since 2006, left Russia and wrote a letter of resignation from abroad. “At first I left, I was afraid they just wouldn’t let me go, then I wrote a statement,” Gildeeva said in her message, which she forwarded to Russian blogger Ilya Varlamov today.

Gildeeva had been working for the channel since 2006 and in the past her professional career was recognized by the Russian president himself, Vladimir Putin.

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Source: Elcomercio

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