BERLIN --
German media outlet Welt has employed as a correspondent a lady who made worldwide headlines by bursting right into a studio of Russian state TV, her then employer, to denounce the Ukraine warfare throughout a reside information bulletin, its proprietor Axel Springer stated on Monday.
Marina Ovsyannikova, 43, will report for the Welt newspaper in addition to for Welt's TV information channel, together with from Ukraine and Russia, Springer stated.
1000's of Russians have been detained for taking to the streets to protest towards the warfare however Ovsyannikova went additional, holding up an anti-propaganda signal behind a studio presenter studying the information at prime time and shouting anti-war slogans.
Welt Group editor-in-chief Ulf Porschardt stated in a press release by Springer that Ovsyannikova along with her on-air protest "defended crucial journalistic ethics – regardless of the specter of state repression."
"I'm excited to be working along with her," he added.
Ovsyannikova had informed Reuters final month that she was frightened for her security and hoped her protest would open Russians' eyes to propaganda. She stated she had no plans to go away Russia.
State TV is a crucial platform for the Kremlin, which portrays the invasion as a "particular army operation" to demilitarize and "denazify" Ukraine.
Ukraine and the West say Russia launched an unprovoked act of aggression.
Reporting by Maria Sheahan, Modifying by William Maclean
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