Marina Ovsyannikova, the Russian journalist who held up an anti-war poster on Russian state TV, confirmed that she was not under court-ordered house arrest.
“I consider myself completely innocent, and because our country refuses to enforce its laws, I refuse to serve my pre-trial restriction under house arrest and I voluntarily free yourself from all that,” Ovsyannikova said in a statement on her Telegram channel.
A court in August placed her under house arrest until October 9, accusing her of disseminating false information about the Russian Armed Forces, TASS reported.
Ovsyannikova, a former employee of Russia Channel One, interrupted the broadcast in March holding up a sign that read: “NO WAR. Stop the war. Don’t believe the propaganda that They tell you lies here.”
At that time, Ovsyannikova told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, whose many Russian journalists see a discrepancy between reality and what’s shown on the country’s television channels, says it’s “simply impossible to keep silent”.
“Dear law enforcement, please put this bracelet on Putin because it is he who should be isolated from society, not me. Mr. Ovsyannikova said that Putin should be put on trial for genocide of the Ukrainian people and mass murder of men in Russia. in a separate video on Telegram on Wednesday while pointing to a tracking bracelet on her ankle.
The Russian military leadership “has no opinion on the number of victims among civilians” in Ukraine,” Ovsyannikova added.
“Perhaps the conscience of some judge, prosecutor or investigator will wake up and they will stop calling the dead children in Ukraine fake,” she said. “And they will stop prosecuting me for telling the truth.”
“I spent almost two months under house arrest,” she continued, adding that all the while, investigators were referring to the words of Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and his spokesman. he, Major General Igor Konashenkov, “tried to pretend not to be one. the child died in the war in Ukraine. “
