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Protester with 'No War' sign walks onto Russian state TV set
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Protester with 'No War' sign walks onto Russian state TV set

A protester interrupted Russia’s main evening news broadcast Monday, holding a sign saying “No War” and telling viewers not to believe the station’s “propaganda

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A protester interrupted Russia’s main evening news broadcast Monday, holding a sign saying “No War” and telling viewers not to believe the station’s “propaganda.”

The brief protest occurred on the state-owned, widely watched Channel One. The independent OVD-Info human rights group said the woman was named Marina Ovsyannikova and that she had been detained and taken into custody.

Her whereabouts and condition were unclear as of Tuesday morning.

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Ovsyannikova, an employee of the TV station, described the situation in Ukraine as a "true crime" in a video shared by the human rights group after her protest.

"Russia is the aggressor. And the responsibility for this crime lies only on the conscience of one person, and that person is Vladimir Putin," she said in the video.

"My father is Ukrainian, my mother is Russian. They were never enemies," she continued. She added that she was "ashamed" to have contributed to the Kremlin's propaganda in her time at the TV station.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov dismissed Ovsyannikova's protest as "hooliganism" in a daily news briefing with reporters Tuesday, saying it was not on his agenda.

The United Nations human rights office urged Russian authorities not to punish her for "exercising her right to freedom of expression.”