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‘I spread Kremlin propaganda’: Russian TV news protester's pre-recorded statement

Guardian, 15 Mar 2022
Russia state television employee Marina Ovsyannikova, who ran on to the set of a live broadcast shouting: ‘Stop the war. No to war’, also made a pre-recorded video statement. ‘What is happening now in Ukraine is a crime, and Russia is the aggressor country’, she said. ‘My father is Ukrainian, my mother is Russian. The were never enemies’.  Ovsyannikova lamented her time at the state-run television channel, ‘I spread the Kremlin propaganda and I am very ashamed of this. I am ashamed I allowed Russian people to be fooled’. Ovsyannikova was arrested shortly after her protest according to human rights groups
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