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Metro 2033 creator Dmitry Glukhovsky faces eight-year jail sentence if he returns to Russia (metro.co.uk)

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The writer of the Metro novels and video games has been handed an eight-year prison sentence, for his opposition to the Ukraine war.

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[+] [email protected] -46 points 2 years ago (9 children)

and the pretexts under which it [the invasion of Ukraine] was started look more and more insignificant and false.’

Really? In what way? More and more people are learning about the origins of the war all the time.

[–] UnfortunateShort 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

The origin of this war is that Putin wants to restore the Soviet Union and thought Ukraine is easy prey, because of revolutionary forces within Ukraine and because his collaborators lied to him. They then continued to invade with limited success, thanks to low morale, aged tactics and corruption in their badly equipped military. Now Russians die in the thousands not because of Ukraine, but because of him.

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