Noting that she had a Ukrainian father and a Russian mother who had never been enemies, she said the necklace she wore – in the colors of the Russian and Ukrainian flags – was a symbol of Moscow’s need to stop. “this fratricidal war”. “
“Unfortunately, for the past few years I have worked at Channel One and worked on Kremlin propaganda,” she said. “I’m very ashamed of this right now – ashamed of letting people tell lies on the TV screen, ashamed of allowing the Russian people to be zombified.”
Referring to Russia 2014 invasion of Ukrainian Crimean territory then the territories of eastern Ukraine, as well as the territories of the Kremlin poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in 2020Ovsyannikova said: “We just silently observed this inhumane regime.”
“Now the whole world has turned away from us,” she said, “and the next 10 generations of our descendants will not wash away the shame of this fratricidal war.”
“We are Russians who think, who are intelligent. It is only in our power to stop all this madness,” she concluded. “Go to the protests. Don’t be afraid of anything. They can’t imprison all of us.”