Russian man jailed for five years over accusations made in street interview.
A Russian man convicted of criticising the Ukraine conflict in a street interview had his sentence changed from five years of hard labour to five years in prison, state media reported.
Yuri Kokhovets, 38, accused Russian soldiers of shooting civilians in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha “for no reason at all” in a spontaneous interview he gave to US-funded news outlet Radio Liberty in July 2022.
He was sentenced to five years of correctional labour in April 2024 for spreading “false information about the Russian army”, but prosecutors appealed, asking for a tougher sentence.
“The court has decided to change the sentence of Yuri Kokhovets and sentence him to five years of imprisonment in a general regime penal colony,” a Moscow City Court judge was quoted as saying by the state TASS news agency.
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