Moscow Sentences Ex-Ukrainian Adviser Arestovych to 11 Years in Prison

A judge at Moscow’s Second Western District Military Court has sentenced Oleksiy Arestovych, a former adviser to the Ukrainian president’s office, to 11 years in prison in absentia. The court found him guilty of spreading “false information” regarding the April 2022 Russian missile strike on Kramatorsk and calling for terrorism by urging railway sabotage. Arestovych, who resigned from his advisory role in January 2023 and now lives abroad as a critic of the Ukrainian government, called the…