“The law has been adopted and it must be implemented ... The time is not easy now.

You see that the law was needed and was urgently needed in connection with the absolutely unprecedented not campaign, but the information war that was unleashed against our country,” the Kremlin spokesman said.

Against the backdrop of this information war, a law of appropriate severity was adopted.

On March 4, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law criminalizing dissemination of false information about the Russian Armed Forces and for calling for anti-Russian sanctions.

According to the amendments, if the spread of fakes about the Russian Armed Forces entails serious consequences, it will threaten with imprisonment for a term of ten to 15 years.