Moscow Court Jails Ex-Ukrainian Presidential Aide Oleksiy Arestovych 11 Years in Absentia
Prosecutors said he spread false claims about a 2022 missile strike and urged sabotage of railway lines used to resupply Russian troops.
- A Moscow court sentenced former adviser Oleksiy Arestovych to 11 years in prison on Friday in absentia after the Second Western District Military Court found him guilty of spreading false information about the Russian military and publicly calling for terrorism.
- Prosecutors based the case on March 2022 videos where Arestovych called for 'waging a total rail war' against Russia in occupied territories, alongside April 2022 posts about a deadly missile strike on Kramatorsk.
- Held behind closed doors, the trial lasted a single day. Beyond the prison sentence, the judge banned Arestovych from managing websites for four years, according to independent outlet Mediazona.
- Responding to the ruling on Telegram, Arestovych dismissed the court's decision as a 'sophisticated cover-up operation.' He currently resides outside of Ukraine after resigning in January 2023 following the Dnipro missile strike controversy.
- Russia added Arestovych to its list of 'terrorists and extremists' in May 2023 and placed him on its wanted list later that year. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky imposed sanctions against his former adviser in 2025.
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State news agency TASS reports that Russian justice sentenced former Ukrainian President Oleksiy Arestovych to 11 years in prison.
Russian court sentences former Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksii Arestovych to 11 years in absentia
The 2nd Western District Military Court in Moscow sentenced Oleksii Arestovych, a former adviser to the presidential chief of staff of Ukraine, in absentia to 11 years in prison, the independent outlet Mediazona said on August 28.
Moscow Court Jails Ex-Ukrainian Presidential Aide Oleksiy Arestovych 11 Years in Absentia
A judge in Moscow on Friday sentenced Oleksiy Arestovych, a former adviser to the Ukrainian president’s office, to 11 years in prison in absentia after finding him guilty of spreading false information about the Russian military and publicly calling for terrorism.
The Second West District Military Court in Moscow sentenced the blogger and former counselor of Zelensky Alexey Arrestovich's office...
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Noticias ao MinutoThe first three years must be completed on a closed basis and the rest in a general penal colony.
Arestovich was accused of spreading “fakes” about the Russian army
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