According to accounts, the brave woman who rushed a Russian TV news program with an anti-war message has gone missing.
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Marina Ovsyannikova, a Channel One employee, interrupted anchor Ekaterina Andreeva as she was presenting her evening bulletin yesterday night. She jumped into the background, holding a poster that warned viewers not to trust the “propaganda” being broadcast.
Marina was detained by police last night, and her lawyers were unable to contact her as of this morning, according to sources.
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Marina will be charged with “publicly spreading deliberately false information about the Russian military forces” and could face up to 15 years in prison, according to the FT’s Moscow Bureau head Max Seddon.
Marina appears to have recorded a video before storming the news segment in which she apologized for her job on Russian state television and blamed Vladimir Putin for the war.
She remarked in the video: “What is going on in Ukraine is illegal, and Russia is the aggressor. Vladimir Putin has sole responsibility for this action.
“My father is Ukrainian, and my mother is Russian, yet they were never adversaries.


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