The journalist's lawyer, Konstantin Bubon, said that his client was detained for sharing information about war crimes committed by the Russian army in 2022 in the town of Bucha, Kyiv region. Bubon announced on Facebook that the journalist was being held in the city of Khabarovsk, in the Russian Far East, where he lives.
After the start of full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, a package of laws was adopted in Russia, making it possible to sentence citizens to long-term prison for spreading the so-called fake news about the Russian army.
In Bucha, Irpin, Hostoml, Borodyanka and many other towns near Kyiv, invading Russian troops committed countless war crimes - murdering, torturing and raping en masse both the captured military personnel and the civilians living in the overtaken areas.
As the Ukrainian counteroffensive pushed the invading forces back north to Belarus at the end of March 2022, some of these war crimes were revealed to the world, and the investigations are ongoing to identify all perpetrators.
Sunday is day 795 of Russia’s full-scale war of aggression against Ukraine.
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Source: PAP