A Russian court has sentenced a journalist to six years in prison for comments critical of Moscow’s offensive in Ukraine, officials said, as part of an ongoing crackdown on dissent
A RUSSIAN COURT has sentenced a journalist to six years in prison for comments critical of Moscow’s offensive in Ukraine, officials said, as part of an ongoing crackdown on dissent.
Maria Ponomarenko, 44, was sentenced for spreading information she knew to be false about Moscow’s army, said the Investigative Committee, which probes major crimes. She was prosecuted for a post on social media last March related to an attack on a theatre in Ukraine’s port city of Mariupol that came under Russian control after a long siege.Kyiv and its Western allies blamed Moscow for the death of hundreds of civilians in the attack, which Russia denies.Ponomarenko was arrested last April in Russia’s second city of Saint Petersburg before being transferred to Barnaul.
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