Prosecution seeks nine year prison sentence for former Interior Ministry employee accused of ‘spreading fakes’ about the war

During a hearing at Moscow’s Perovsky District Court, the prosecution requested that Sergey Klokov (Vedel) serve nine years in a penal colony. Klokov, who previously worked at Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs, was charged with “spreading war fakes,” reports Mediazona and Network Freedoms. The prosecution asked the court to strip Klokov of his title and to suspend him from government employment for a period of five years.

According to the prosecution, Klokov made three phone calls on March 9, 2022, in which he discussed the war in Ukraine. He reportedly said that Russia refused to recognize huge wartime losses, failed to repatriate the bodies of soldiers, executed those who refused to follow orders, as well as engaged in targeted destruction of residential buildings and killing of civilians.