Daniil Frolkin’s sentence on charges of spreading ‘fake news’ seen as attempt to silence other service personnel
A Russian soldier who confessed to killing a civilian inlast year has been given a five and a half year suspended jail sentence by a military court in Russia’s far east on charges of spreading “fake news” about the army.
In an interview with the independent news outlet IStories last August, Daniil Frolkin, 21, said he shot and killed a male civilian in Andriivka, a village near Kyiv that was occupied by Russian forces shortly after the invasion began. “I tell him: ‘Get down on your knees.’ And I just put a bullet through his forehead. Killed one person,” Frolkin told IStories in a phone conversation published by the outlet.“I, a military serviceman from military unit 51460, guards private first class, Frolkin Daniel Andreevich, confess to all the crimes I committed in Andriivka, to shooting civilians, stealing from civilians, taking their phones,” Frolkin added.
At least 40 of Andriivka’s approximately 1,000 residents were killed during the Russian occupation that lasted until April,
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