A Russian soldier who confessed to killing a civilian in Ukraine last year has been given a five-and-a-half-year suspended jail sentence by a military court in Russia’s far east on charges of spreading “fake news” about the army.
In an interview with the independent news outlet IStories last August, Daniil Frolkin, 21, said he shot and killed a male civilian in Andriivka, a village near Kyiv that was occupied by Russian forces shortly after the invasion began.
