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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
World
Will Stewart & Zahra Khaliq

Vladimir Putin 'should face jail' after breaking own law over Ukraine war, say critics

Russian opposition figures are demanding Vladimir Putin face criminal action and jail after he broke his own draconian law against using the word “war” to refer to the bloody military conflict he unleashed in Ukraine.

Thousands of Russians have been punished - some jailed, others fined - for describing the nightmare as a “war”.

They are held to have defamed the Russian army by using the three-letter word.

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