Alexander Vaskovsky, a former deputy of the Supreme Council of the so-called "Donetsk People's Republic," was detained in St. Petersburg. The reason was two critical posts on his Telegram channel, specifically about Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.
According to the report on "discrediting" the army, one of the posts contained criticism of the "corrupt and thieving elite" in the Donbas territories and characterized the United Russia party as "an instrument for exploiting the population."
Authorities believed that his post "creates an image of Russian military-civilian governance in the liberated territories as corrupt and anti-people."
In the second post, Vaskovsky called Ramzan Kadyrov's proposals to lift sanctions against his relatives in exchange for the release of Ukrainian prisoners of war "a surrender of national interests."
ASTRA also reports that Vaskovsky's Telegram channel contained posts about the failure of a "student recruitment campaign for UAV troops, the forced capture" of men in the "DPR," and systematic, ongoing mobilization.
