“The suspect, being an employee of the Administration of the city of Elista ... disseminated, under the guise of reliable reports, deliberately false information ... about the number of dead military personnel and the circumstances of the military special operation on the territory of Ukraine, which did not correspond to reality, accompanying this with insulting statements addressed to the military personnel,” - the message of the investigative department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for Kalmykia says.
The person involved in the case was temporarily taken into custody, he will soon be charged.
In the criminal case, computer forensic examinations were appointed on the seized computer equipment and components for them, a mobile phone.
In March, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law criminalizing dissemination of false information about the Russian Armed Forces and calls 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.