With a protest poster and loud shouts, an opponent of the war on Russian state television caused the main evening news program to be interrupted. During the live broadcast on Monday at 9:00 p.m. Moscow time (7:00 p.m. CET), the woman suddenly jumped into the picture behind news anchor Yekaterina Andreyeva and held up a sign that read “Stop the war. Do not believe the propaganda. You are being lied to here”. .
She shouted out loud several times: “No to war, no to war, no to war!” The transmission then broke off and pictures from a hospital were shown.
The video excerpt immediately spread on social networks. Above all, Russian oppositionists praised the woman for her courage. “What courage really means,” tweeted pianist Igor Levit. In Russia, the media is forbidden from calling the Russian invasion of Ukraine a “war” or an “invasion.” Instead, there is official talk of a “military special operation”.
According to media reports, the woman is an employee of state television who is said to have previously announced her protest action on social networks. She is said to have given as a reason that her father was Ukrainian and that the war once morest the neighboring country was a “crime” for which Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin was responsible. She is said to have been arrested. In a statement, the first Russian television channel only spoke of an “incident” during the “Vremya” program and announced an internal review.
