Sergei Vedel was arrested for disseminating 'fakes' about the Russian army.
A Moscow police officer could face a lengthy prison term after the wiretapping of his phone revealed that he had criticized the Kremlin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.last year, had made disparaging comments about the war in conversations with his relatives, according to an indictment that was reported on the Telegram channel of opposition politician Ilya Yashin.
He had worked as a driver for one of the chiefs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. A month before the start of the war, his phone was wiretapped, which Yashin said could have been as part of an investigation into his boss or because of his Ukrainian origins. Destroyed Russian armored vehicles line the street in the city of Bucha, west of Kyiv, on March 4, 2022. Sergei Vedel, who was originally from the city west of Kyiv, but worked in Moscow as a police officer, was charged with spreading"fakes" about Russia's military.It was discovered that during his phone conversations with friends last March, Vedel denied that Ukraine was run by Nazis, a stance that was one of the Kremlin's justifications for its war.
He also said that one of the reasons for the war was a bid by Moscow to change power in Kyiv and he outlined the heavy Russian troop losses in the early days of the invasion. In March 2022, a criminal case was opened against Vedel in connection with the public dissemination of false information about the actions of the Russian army.
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