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In a high-profile case involving military “fakes”, nurse Olga Menshikh was sentenced to 8 years in prison by Judge Evgeniya Gorokhova of the Dorogomilovsky District Court in Moscow. The verdict also included a three-year ban on administering websites post-release, as reported by “Mediazona”.
“When faced with the sight of a young man’s severed limb, what emotions do you think a woman would feel? Compassion, not the alleged hatred pinned on me. Perhaps my exposure to wounded individuals at the hospital led to some professional distortion. In reality, I only felt sympathy for them,” Menshikh expressed in her final statement.
The charges stemmed from two social media posts made by Menshikh on “VKontakte” – one about the shelling of Vinnytsia in July 2022 and another commemorating the de-occupation anniversary of Bucha. The FSB had conducted prior inquiries into Menshikh before launching the case.
Menshikh was apprehended on April 8 after her apartment door was sawed open during a search. Initially under house arrest, she was later remanded into pre-trial detention on September 12 due to unauthorized departures from home on August 23 and 27. Despite claiming to be at home during one incident and having an urgent dental appointment during another, she still faced harsher confinement measures.
“Even if my tooth is perfectly healthy, you’ll still lock me up for 7 years,” Menshikh defiantly stated during court proceedings.
Original article available at theins.ru