Kyiv Blogger Arrested for Promoting Violent Change of Government

In 2023-2024, a 35-year-old Kyiv resident repeatedly posted videos on TikTok calling for a violent change of the current Ukrainian government.

According to the prosecutor's office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, the 35-year-old Kyiv resident, supporting Russia's armed aggression against Ukraine, created and maintained several accounts on the social network TikTok to persuade other citizens to adopt his pro-Russian position. During 2023-2024, he repeatedly disseminated videos calling for a violent change of the current Ukrainian government, namely the President and representatives of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

"In addition, he denied the temporary occupation of part of the territory of Ukraine, including the Crimean peninsula ," the agency said in a statement.

In October 2024, the "blogger" was detained in Kyiv. He will await a court verdict in custody. The Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol submitted an indictment against the man to the court. He is accused of disseminating materials calling for a violent change of state power and denying the temporary occupation of part of the territory of Ukraine, using the media. The accused faces up to 8 years in prison with confiscation of property.

Earlier, a 38-year-old resident of Kherson , Andriy Polishchuk , who posted anti-Ukrainian propaganda in schools during the occupation in exchange for Russian rubles, was suspected by the Kherson Regional Prosecutor's Office of aiding and abetting the Russians.

The case against a resident of Kherson was also brought to court, as during the temporary occupation of Kherson, the local resident voluntarily cooperated with the occupiers, actively spreading Kremlin propaganda. The woman distributed hostile literature in crowded places - near markets, wholesale bases, etc.

Also, an employee of a utility company will be tried in Kherson for distributing Russian newspapers, who in the summer of 2022 received the Naddnepryanska Pravda and Komsomolska Pravda publications from the occupation administration and distributed them among her employees.

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