Russian detained over anti-war statements and daughter taken into care

Alexei Moskalyov charged with ‘discrediting Russian army’, while daughter punished for drawing rockets fired at Ukraine family

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A Russian man has been detained for making anti-war statements and his 12-year-old daughter temporarily taken into state care after the family faced pressure from authorities for drawings the girl made at school depicting Russia bombing a family in Ukraine.

Alexei Moskalyov, a single parent from the town of Yefremov, 150 miles south of Moscow, was charged with repeat offences of “discrediting the Russian army”, a felony crime, for making anti-war statements on Odnoklassniki, a Russian social network.