In Moscow, the prominent antiwar politician Maxim Kruglov has been sentenced to seven years in prison. He was convicted of spreading false information about the Russian military for posting messages online about civilian deaths in Ukraine. Kruglov is the deputy leader of the liberal Yabloko party in Russia. The party’s former leader, Sergey Mitrokhin, condemned the sentence.

Sergey Mitrokhin: “The prosecutor and the investigator did not even hesitate to accuse him of disagreeing with the political course of the country’s leadership. For that, he was now given seven years. What can I say? I think this is a return to the darkest times.”