55-year-old Vladimir Osipov has been sentenced to 6.5 years in prison in a case concerning so-called “military fakes.”

55-year-old Vladimir Osipov has been sentenced to six and a half years in a penal colony on charges of spreading military “fakes.” SOTAvision reports about the verdict.

Osipov has also been banned from administering websites for three years.

The charges relate to posts Osipov allegedly made on Odnoklassniki: one of them included the phrase “Every criminal has their own signature,” and in another, the war in Ukraine was called “the disgraceful war of a disgraceful president.” Osipov does not admit guilt. His lawyer, Mikhail Bespyatko, has pointed out that some of the posts attributed to his client were published on a page that does not exist on Odnoklassniki.

Vladimir had to summon an ambulance several times during the court hearings due to high blood pressure and arrhythmia. Because of his repeated requests for medical assistance, the judge removed Osipov from the proceedings until the end of the closing arguments. After the sentencing request, Vladimir was hospitalised under guard and then taken from the hospital to an unknown location.

The convicted person was unable to make a final statement—the judge deemed his words about feeling unwell to be a refusal to speak.