Moscow, April 8: Dmitry Muratov, a Nobel Peace Prize-winning newspaper editor, was attacked with red paint while he was traveling on a train in Russia.

Muratov, editor-in-chief of the independent Russian investigative newspaper Novaya Gazeta, said he was attacked on Thursday during a train ride from Moscow to the city of Samara, when an unidentified individual poured red paint all over him and his belongings, CNN reported on Friday.

Muratov, who won last year’s the Nobel Prize for defending the freedom of speech in Russia, told CNN earlier this week that half the country’s population was against the war in Ukraine.

“They poured oil paint with acetone in the compartment. My eyes burned terribly. Moscow-Samara train. Oily smell all over the car. Departure has already been delayed by 30 minutes. I’ll try to wash off. (The attacker) shouted: ‘Muratov, here’s to you for our boys,” Muratov said on his Telegram on Thursday. Muratov had also said that he would auction off his medal in a support to Ukrainian refugees.