She Quit RT

The editor-in-chief of Russia Today, Maria Baronova has resigned from the outlet and says, “I really think we’re on the brink of a nuclear war right now. I’m not exaggerating," Baronova told Fox News.

As someone that has seen and covered Vladimir Putin up-close, she likely knows more than most.

Despite leaving RT, Baronova is not leaving Russia, although she is not sure how long she will be alive.

"I have a son, I can’t leave because his father won’t allow me to leave with him, and so I just prefer to stay in Moscow … It seems like we’re either in North Korea or we are going to be killed by a thermonuclear mushroom," she said. "I wouldn’t quit, and I wouldn’t lose my salary and job if I was sure that we are going to be alive for many years, but I really don’t know what is going to happen to all of us next."

"If I chose to be with Russia, this does not mean that I should walk in a totalitarian system, be silent or, for example, rejoice that the regime, which I do not want for my country, is being exported somewhere else," Baronova wrote. "And this regime will finally turn our life into one endless hell. What's there. Already turned."

Baronova then stepped down from the state-run network. 

"That was the moment I decided, ‘OK, that’s it,’" she said.  

H/T WNYW