Woman who interrupted TV show to criticize Putin's war shares daring escape from Russia

Ukraine-born Marina Ovsyannikova, 44, changed cars seven times and navigated her way to freedom using the stars during her escape of Russia after interrupting a live TV broadcast to challenge Vladimir Putin

In March last year, Marina Ovsyannikova interrupted a broadcast by holding up a sign condemning Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine (

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A Russian TV editor who interrupted a show to challenge Vladimir Putin about his war in Ukraine has shared her terrifying ordeal fleeing her homeland after becoming a scarred woman.

Marina Ovsyannikova, 44, born in Ukraine, made headlines a year ago when she stood in front of Channel One cameras with a sign that read: "NO WAR. STOP WAR . DON'T BELIEVE PROPAGANDA. THEY" I'M LYING TO YOU HERE. RUSSIANS AGAINST WAR."

She was put on the country's red list and placed under house arrest in August in connection with another incident when she held up a poster calling the tyrant a murderer and his soldiers fascists.

The regime has accused her of spreading false information about the Russian armed forces - a crime recently dreamed up by the Kremlin - for which she could be sentenced to 10 years in a sinister Russian penal colony.

In October, Marina fled Russia to Paris, where she is kept 24 hours a day (

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But rather than wait for the almost certain guilty verdict, Marina fled her homeland with her young daughter in a daring escape to Paris.

They both now live in the French capital after President Emmanuel Macron offered them sanctuary in the form of political asylum and 24-hour security.

Speaking from Paris, she said: "I know only too well what can happen to the enemies of the Kremlin. But more and more of us are talking. Putin cannot silo...