A court in Russia's western exclave of Kaliningrad on September 19 sentenced a resident of the town of Svetlogorsk to six years in prison for making anti-war statements online about Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The court found Andrei Lugovoi guilty of spreading false information about the Russian armed forces. He was also banned from administering websites for four years. Lugovoi was arrested in December 2023. He has rejected the charge. Since Russia launched its full-scale aggression against Ukraine in February 2022, dozens of Russians have been handed prison terms on the chare of distributing false information about Russian military. To read the original story by Current Time, click here.
