66 -year -old citizen of Russia, the USA and Ukraine was appointed six years for comments in the Ukrainian telegram channel

The 1st Western District Military Court in St. Petersburg has appointed six years of colony of general regime to a 66-year-old citizen of Russia, USA and Ukraine Alexander Antonov, who was arrested for pro-Ukrainian comments, found out the Mediazona

Earlier today, the prosecutor in the debate requested seven years in prison for him.

Antonov is charged with calls for terrorist activities (part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) and two episodes of calls for extremist activity (part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code).

The defendant and the lawyer checked to appoint a fine. “I don't know what to say. I'm shocked. Dear prosecutor, I am 66 years old. How many years did I have left? Do not insist on a real term. This is my stupidity. That I will sit to the point? So the budget will receive money. Well, where do I go to jail? I may have an oncological disease. I am not an enemy of Russia and not Russophobe. I did unconsciously. All his life was an honest man, ”said Antonov.

He noticed that "a repentant poacher is the best forester," he promised to return to the Crimea and assured that "he would tell everyone what is possible, what is impossible."

As it became known at the first meeting, on July 21, the prosecution believes that a man in 2022-2024 wrote comments in the Channel “Ukraine 365” and the chat of this public “Ukrainian Dialogue”, being at that time in the annexed Crimea, then in the USA, and in Ukraine.

The prosecutor listed the messages left by Antonov, among them: “Bravo, Azov!”, “Grins, nonhumans, burn all the military”, “Well done!” (in Ukrainian), “I only believe in the Armed Forces! Death <obscene>. "

The man was detained in March of this year in the Pskov region on the border with Estonia after the security forces found the comment “Glory to Ukraine” on his phone. He was sent twice under administrative arrest, and then sent to a pre -trial detention center already in a criminal case.

At the first meeting, Antonov, who takes part in the process of video conferences, pleaded guilty, regret and asked for forgiveness from everyone who saw his comments. Judging by the documents announced by the prosecutor, Antonov sent 300 thousand rubles of the Russian army.

The prosecutor Daniil Mandrykin also read the testimony of several witnesses, including “Telegram users” who read the Ukraine 365 channel and saw Antonov’s comments, but personally were not familiar with him, and the FSB officer employee at the Shumilkino checkpoint.

In addition, a woman with whom Antonov has been living as a witness had been interrogated for several years. She told the investigator that Antonov has a wallpaper plant in the Dnieper and the construction business in Budapest. According to the witness, the man neutrally treated the war in Ukraine and "rarely spoke out in support of any country."

Alexander Antonov was born in the Perm region. Basically, judging by the bases of leaks, he lived in the Crimea, registered in Yalta. He studied for a railway worker in the Dnieper.

According to Antonov, he worked in the USA for seven years, but later returned to Russia. In the United States, he had a wife with whom he is in the process of divorce, and three children. Another child and minor stepdaughter Antonova are in Crimea.