A landscaper from the Kaluga region who was detained in the spring with anti-war leaflets was sentenced to three years in prison.

The 2nd Western District Military Court in Moscow sentenced Russian Railways landscaper Ivan Yepikhin, who was detained in the spring because of anti-war leaflets, to three years in prison. OVD-Info about this A representative of the court told .

The man was also banned from administering websites for a year.

As wrote ASTRA , security forces detained Epikhin in March in the village of Tovarkovo, Kaluga Region. According to the telegram channel, the man posted anti-war leaflets in which he called Crimea Ukrainian and the political regime in Russia fascist.

against him A criminal case was opened for calls for terrorism (Part 1 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) and extremism (Part 1 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code). Later, a charge of possession of explosives was added (Part 1 of Article 222.1 of the Criminal Code). At the end of June, the authors of the telegram channel “OPER leaked” wrote that “in the course of further operational search activities,” security forces found “an explosive substance obtained from pyrotechnic products” in Epikhin’s house.

As a representative of the court told OVD-Info, the man fully admitted his guilt and repented.