Highlights
- Marina Ovsyannikova’s lawyer confirmed that she has been detained
- Ovsyannikova mentioned she was taken to the police station within the capital’s Krasnoselsky district
- Later, she mentioned she had been charged for discrediting the actions of the military of Russia
Russia Ukraine information: Russian journalist who in March interrupted a stay TV broadcast to denounce navy motion in Ukraine has been arrested close to her home in Moscow, based on media studies. Her lawyer on Sunday mentioned that the Russian police detained Marina Ovsyannikova.
Ovsyannikova printed a put up on Instagram, stating that she was taken to the police station within the capital’s Krasnoselsky district, Radio Free Europe reported.
Later, she wrote she had been charged for discrediting the actions of the military of Russia due to an interview she gave close to the Basmanny Courtroom of Moscow in help of opposition politician Ilya Yashin, who’s being held in pretrial detention for allegedly spreading false details about the Russian navy, based on the media outlet.
Nevertheless, no official assertion has been made to date.
In March, Ovsyannikova walked onto the set of a stay Russian state tv broadcast to protest in opposition to Moscow’s navy operations in Ukraine.
Throughout the “Vremya” information program on Russia’s predominant TV channel, Ovsyannikova, a Channel One worker, rushed in entrance of the digicam with a poster saying “cease the conflict, do not imagine the propaganda.”
Russia Ukraine conflict
On February 24, Russia started a particular navy operation in Ukraine after the Donetsk and Luhansk folks’s republics requested assist in defending themselves.
The navy operation in Ukraine resulted in a large-scale humanitarian scenario.
In the meantime, on Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fired the chief of the nation’s home intelligence and safety company and its prosecutor common.
Zelenskyy in a video deal with printed on Telegram mentioned that he had dismissed the safety chief, Ivan Bakanov, a childhood pal who led his presidential marketing campaign, and Prosecutor Normal Iryna Venediktova, a detailed ally who was his overseas affairs adviser throughout his presidential run, after shedding religion of their skills to run their places of work.
Zelenskyy additionally mentioned he had fired the highest officers as a result of many circumstances had come to mild of members of their companies collaborating with Russia, based on Al Jazeera.
(With inputs from ANI)