A Russian opposition politician has called on law enforcement to hold Russian President Vladimir Putin accountable for spreading “fake news” about soldiers.

“Our goal is not to trigger a military conflict. On the contrary, we want to end this war,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a speech on Thursday, thus for the first time calling the actions in Ukraine a “war” and not a “special military operation”.

The problem, however, was that in March a new penal code came into effect in Russia, according to which the dissemination of “false information” about soldiers was prohibited, and the services began to prosecute people who called war war. He signed the act… himself Vladimir Putin.

Accuse Putin

Opposition politician Nikita Juferov In response to Putin’s words yesterday, he decided to submit a motion to law enforcement authorities to hold the president accountable for spreading false information.

Yuferov knew that his application would not be considered, but he submitted it anyway to expose the “hypocrisy” of the system.

“It is important for me to do this because I want to draw attention to the contradictions and injustice of this law that he (Putin – ed.) accepted and signed, but he himself did not comply with,” Yuferov told Reuters.

“I think the more we talk about him, the more people will doubt his honesty, his perfectionism, and the less support he will get,” he added.

This is another similar request

Yuferov previously made a similar request regarding the first deputy head of the Russian presidential administration Sergei Kiriyenko and a close ally of Putin Sergei Mironovawho also happens to use the word “war”.

However, the police informed him that they had investigated Kirienko’s case, but, according to them, he had not committed a crime, and in the Mironov case they even refused to accept the report.

The opposition claims that after he published messages regarding Putin’s proposal, he received hundreds of hate messages. However, he hoped that Russia would finally understand what was happening in Ukraine.

“Say> fomenting terror in Russian society. Everyone who was raised by grandparents who lived during World War II remembers them saying>”, said Yuferov.