Journalist Ilya Krasilchik became a suspect in a criminal case about fakes about the army

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on the spread of fakes against the Russian army against the media manager Ilya Krasilshchik. This was reported by the Interfax agency and the publication " Base " with reference to anonymous sources.

Docker - former editor -in -chief of the magazine "Poster" and former publisher "Medusa". After the outbreak of war with Ukraine, he turned into the media about the war his Instagram account . According to the source of Interfax, “fake information about the use of Russian military to kill civilians” in Ukraine was posted in this account. The "base" clarifies that we are talking about the coverage of the alleged massacre in Buch.

According to the imputed article, the journalist faces up to 3 years in prison. In his social networks, he said that he was not in Russia. After the information on the initiation of the case, he announced his dismissal from Yandex, in which he worked since 2019.

• According to the calculations of human rights activist Pavel Chikov, suspects or accused in criminal cases on the distribution of fakes about the army, 7 journalists and 4 bloggers have already become.