Ilya Yashin was sentenced to 8.5 years in prison due to a stream about the murders of Bucha residents by the Russian military

The Moscow City Court upheld the sentence of oppositionist Ilya Yashin in the case of military “fakes”. This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the courtroom.

In December 2022, the politician was sentenced to 8.5 years in a general regime colony. Yashin did not admit guilt; in his last word he called for the withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine.

The reason for initiating the case was an April stream on YouTube, during which Yashin spoke about the killings of civilians by the Russian military in the Ukrainian city of Bucha (clause “e” of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code).

According to the prosecution, the politician spoke about the murders, although he “reliably knew” that photographs of dead people were a provocation of the “Kyiv regime.”

Yashin was detained and sent to a pre-trial detention center in the summer of 2022. Shortly before his arrest, his colleague, municipal deputy of the Krasnoselsky district, Alexei Gorinov, was sentenced to seven years in prison in the same case of “fake news” about the army.