Marina Ovsyannikova, the Russian state TV editor who protested the invasion of Ukraine on live television, continued her campaign against the war in an interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos on Sunday.
"The Russian people are really against the war," Ovsyannikova said. "It’s Putin’s war and not the Russian people’s war."
Ovsyannikova ran onto the set of the main Russian state news live broadcast earlier this month with an anti-war sign to protest Russia's invasion of Ukraine, standing behind a Channel One anchor as they were speaking.
The sign read, "NO WAR" and "Don't believe the propaganda. They're lying to you here," in English and Russian, respectively.
Ovsyannikova said it was a "spontaneous decision" for her to go onto the set, but "the dissatisfaction with the current situation has been accumulating for years, because the propaganda on our state channels has become more and more distorted."
"What we showed on our programs was very different than the reality," she said.
Ovsyannikova hoped her demonstration would attract attention to the propaganda and "inspire more people to speak up."
Ovsyannikova was fined 30,000 rubles (about $280) after being charged with an "administrative offense" stemming from an earlier video she recorded calling on Russians to take part in demonstrations against the war.
-ABC News' Monica and Dunn Quinn Scanlan