Russian TV star calls for Putin to have electronic tag for ‘Ukraine genocide’
TV presenter Marina Ovsyannikova has urged the Russian Prison Service to detain and place an electronic tag on President Vladimir Putin.
The 44-year-old presenter is currently on the run and made waves across Russia after staging an anti-war protest on live state television and stating Putin should be tried for "genocide of the people of Ukraine".
With a tag on her ankle noticeable in the video she made after being ordered to serve two months' of house arrest, she addressed the prison service and said: “Dear staff of the Federal Prison Service, tag Putin with a bracelet like this.
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“It is him, and not me, who needs to be isolated from society and tried for genocide of the people of Ukraine.
“And for the fact that he is massively destroying the male population of Russia.”
The famous TV presenter expressed her views on her legal situation and said she is "completely innocent".
She said: “I consider myself completely innocent, and since our state refuses to comply with its own laws, I refuse to comply with the measure of restraint imposed on me as of 30 September 2022 and release myself from it."
After partaking in a protest where she stood on a river embankment opposite the Kremlin and held up a poster calling President Vladimir Putin a murderer and his soldiers fascists, she was ordered to serve two months' house arrest in August.
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Facing a sentence of up to ten years in prison if she was found guilty of the charge of spreading fake news about Russia's armed forces, Ovsyannikova fled her house arrest with one week remaining.
The Russian interior ministry has begun a major search for her whereabouts, while her lawyer has refused to disclose her location.
Ovsyannikova has been a staunch critic of Putin and the war and in March, she famously walked in on Russia’s most-watched news show with a poster saying: “They’re lying to you here” and “Stop the War!”
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