Daniil Frolkin’s sentence on charges of spreading ‘fake news’ seen as attempt to silence other service personnelRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesA Russian soldier who confessed to killing a civilian in Ukraine last year has been given a five-and-a-half-year suspended jail sentence by a military court in Russia’s far east on charges of spreading “fake news” about the army.In an interview with the independent news outlet IStories last August, Daniil Frolkin, 21, said he shot and killed a male civilian in Andriivka, a village near Kyiv that was occupied by Russian forces shortly after the invasion began.This article was amended on 16 March 2023 to clarify that Frolkin’s jail sentence was suspended. He was not sent to jail as stated in an earlier version based on Russian media reports. Continue reading...
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