Russian President Vladimir Putin’s top proxy in Crimea wants to stiffen criminal penalties against people who publish bad news from the front lines, calling them “willing or unwitting accomplices” of Ukraine's forces.
“I urge everyone to show responsibility and remember the consequences of rash acts that undermine security, harm our Armed Forces and help the enemy in military operations, in carrying out terrorist attacks on Russian territories, in the information war,” Putin appointee Sergey Aksyonov, who heads the occupation administration in Crimea, wrote on social media on Monday.
“When you see that another military blogger has been attacked with a network of unknown channels with 1,000-5,000 subscribers each, know that this is an order from the [Russian Ministry of Defense],” Russian military blogger Roman Saponkov wrote on Monday in a post translated by the WarTranslated project. “Most likely, the blogger wrote something that has a bad effect on his office career in the rear.
The tension surfaced after a difficult weekend in the physical and “information” war in Ukraine. A purported video of a Russian officer who reportedly went missing in action surfaced on Sunday, with the officer in Ukrainian custody and calling for his fellow soldiers “to stop this pointless bloody war on Ukrainian territory.” Ukrainian forces made another attempt to bombard the Kerch Strait Bridge linking the occupied Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea to the Russian mainland.
“ISW has not observed confirmation that Russian forces have completely withdrawn from Urozhaine and Russian forces likely currently maintain positions in at least the southern part of the settlement,” a team of analysts at the Institute for the Study of War cautioned on Sunday afternoon.
“Crimea will initiate at the federal level ... legislation in terms of toughening responsibility for the dissemination ... of photos and videos of the location and operation of military and strategic facilities, air defense and other defense systems, and also the results of the terrorist attacks committed by the Kiev regime,” Aksyonov said.
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