Russian man whose daughter drew ‘Glory to Ukraine’ image will get 2 years jail however flees

A Russian citizen whose daughter drew an anti-war image at college was sentenced to 2 years in jail on prices of discrediting the armed forces.

Moscow,UPDATED: Mar 29, 2023 09:09 IST

Russian citizen Alexei Moskalyov, who’s accused of discrediting the nation’s armed forces in the midst of Russia-Ukraine army battle, attends a court docket listening to within the city of Yefremov within the Tula area, Russia. (File Photo: Reuters)

By India Today World Desk: A Russian man whose daughter drew an anti-war image at college was sentenced to 2 years in jail on Tuesday on prices of discrediting the armed forces. However, the convicted man has fled and his whereabouts had been unclear, Reuters reported.

The drawing featured a Ukrainian flag with the phrases “Glory to Ukraine” and a Russian tricolour with the slogan “No to war”.

Photo: BBC

The convicted man has been recognized as Alexei Moskalyov. The court docket stated in an official posting on VKontakte, much like Facebook, that he had fled from home arrest.

Moskalyov was positioned below home arrest initially of this month and thus separated from his 13-year-old daughter Masha. She was moved to a youngsters’s dwelling of their hometown of Yefremov, south of Moscow.

The case has provoked an outcry amongst Russian human rights activists and sparked a web-based marketing campaign to reunite father and daughter, information company Reuters reported.

Moskalyov’s lawyer Vladimir Biliyenko informed Reuters that he had not seen his consumer since Monday and was unaware if Moskalyov had fled.

“At the moment, to be honest, I’m in a state of shock,” he informed Reuters.

He added that the defence would attraction in opposition to the decision and Masha would stay within the youngsters’s dwelling in the meanwhile.

Moskalyov was convicted over feedback he himself had posted on-line concerning the conflict in Ukraine. But the investigation began after Masha, then 12, drew an image final April displaying Russian missiles raining down on a Ukrainian mom and baby, prompting the pinnacle of her college to name the police.

Police started analyzing Moskalyov’s social media exercise and he was initially fined 35,000 roubles ($460) for feedback important of the Russian military. In December, investigators opened one other case in opposition to him on suspicion of discrediting the armed forces, this time based mostly on a social media publish in June.

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Manisha Pandey

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Mar 29, 2023