A Russian military blogger has been sentenced to six and a half years in prison after being found guilty of spreading false information about the armed forces , Reuters reported, citing the country's Investigative Committee.
Andrei Kurshin will serve his sentence in a penal colony.
Kurshin administered "Telegram" channel "Moscow Calling", which supports Russia's war aims in Ukraine but criticizes the way the military leadership is conducting the military campaign.
Analysts at the Institute for the Study of War described Kurshin at the time of his arrest last August as a "far-right ultranationalist" who had gone beyond the bounds of permissible criticism of Russia's war effort.