A Russian journalist was sentenced to seven years in prison on Wednesday for spreading “false information” about the Russian army.
Roman Ivanov, who worked for Russian independent news outlet RusNews, was convicted for making a series of social media posts criticising the Russian invasion of Ukraine, including one where he shared an article by The New York Times about the mass murder of civilians in Bucha.
During his final statement to the court, Ivanov spoke of a shared guilt over the Russian army’s actions in Ukraine, adding that the massacre in Bucha showed Russia’s “terrible war brought nothing but fear, pain, grief, destruction and loss to another country as well as to itself”.