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A Russian court has placed Forbes journalist Sergey Mingazov under house arrest after he was detained for spreading fake news about the Russian armed forces, according to Russian state news agency RIA Novosti.
Forbes Russia says its reporter will be under house arrest for at least two months while he awaits trial after he was arrested on Friday.
According to CNN, RIA reported on Saturday that: "Forbes journalist Mingazov, arrested in the case of spreading fake news about the Russian Armed Forces, has been placed under house arrest."
On Friday, Mingazov's lawyer, Konstantin Bubon, said that the journalist was arrested for "reposting an article about the events in Bucha (Ukraine)" on Telegram.
Mingazov's Telegram channel had 476 members at the time of publication of this article. It says he reposted stories about the Russian military allegedly committing atrocities in Bucha, near the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, from other media such as the BBC's Russian newspaper and Radio Freedom.
Bubon said Mingazov is accused of spreading "knowingly false information" about the Russian armed forces "under the guise" of reliable reporting.
The city of Bucha was liberated by Ukrainian forces at the end of March 2022, having been occupied near the beginning of the Russian occupation of Ukraine in February of the same year. According to the Ukrainian prosecutor general's office, the Russian military committed thousands of war crimes in the Bucha district, with hundreds of civilians killed in the city.
The Kremlin has denied any involvement in the mass killings and has repeated baseless claims that images of civilian bodies were fake.
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