After almost eight hours sitting in a police station and court, Vera Kotova became one of the first people to be judged and fined just under US$240 under a new Russian law to punish anyone deemed to have discredited the armed forces.
Explosions were also heard going off in Kyiv overnight and continued into the early hours of Saturday morning; Russia has started implementing its new law under which citizens who spread what it described as “fake” information about the military can be jailed for up to 15 years.
President Zelenskiy mentioned Ukraine had reached a "strategic turning point" within the struggle, and air raid sirens blared throughout most cities within
After almost eight hours sitting in a police station and court, Vera Kotova became one of the first people to be judged and fined just under $240 under a new Russian law to punish anyone deemed to have discredited the armed forces.