Russia city councillor jailed for 7 years for criticising war

GBNews24 Desk//

A Moscow court sentenced a city councillor to seven years in prison for denouncing President Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine intervention, an AFP news agency reporter has said.

Alexei Gorinov, 60, was found guilty of spreading “knowingly false information” about the Russian army in Ukraine. He appeared in court with a poster that read: “Do you still need this war?”