Ruslan Ushakov
Administrator of the Telegram channel "True Crime", writing under the pseudonym "Denis Evsyukov". By the time the "fakes" case was initiated, a case of public justification of terrorism had already been brought against him. As part of that case, he was allegedly detained on 14 December 2022. Initially it was reported that Ushakov was charged under the 1st part of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code, but later it became known that he was charged with spreading deliberately false information about the Armed Forces with the motive of political hatred (point "e" part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). Ushakov is also accused of incitement to hatred (point "a" of part 2 of article 282 of the Criminal Code) and rehabilitation of Nazism (part 4 of article 354.1 of the Criminal Code). At one of the court hearings Ushakov said that during his detention he was tortured with electric shocks. On 29 June 2023, he was sentenced to eight years in a general regime colony. On 27 October, the court of appeal reduced the sentence by two months.