A Russian court on Saturday placed Sergei Mingazov, a journalist with the Russian edition of Forbes, under house arrest, state media reported.
Mingazov was detained on Friday on charges of spreading false information about the Russian military, his lawyer Konstantin Bubon said on Facebook.
Bubon said the journalist was arrested for republishing publications about what happened in the Ukrainian city of Bucha, where Ukrainian authorities found the bodies of more than 400 civilians after Moscow's forces withdrew in April 2022. Ukraine officially filed war crimes charges against Russian soldiers. killings in Buch, but Moscow has repeatedly denied these accusations.
