Petr Sirotiuk
Petr Sirotiuk, born 1958, Kemerovo Oblast. Charges: Article 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code (Dissemination of false information about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, government…); “Petr Sirotiuk's case of military "fakes"”. Sentence (March 17, 2026): Sentence unknown. Status: at large.
In brief
Kemerovo Oblast · Novokuznetsk · Artists · Anti-war cases
Sentence
5 years
Sentence unknown
No information about an appeal ruling.
Charges
- Article 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code — Dissemination of false information about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, government agencies, or mercenaries (based on political, ideological, racial, national or religious hatred or enmity, or on grounds of hatred or enmity in relation to any social group)
Full wording of the charges
Law enforcement officers claim that during monitoring of a social media page belonging to Peter S., they identified a post containing information that did not correspond to reality. The post read: "A Russian drone attacked a protective structure above the 4th unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which was built by all of Europe!!!... What kind of country would so sneakily strike an ATOMIC plant with drones, especially one where the Moscovites themselves caused a MONSTROUS nuclear accident in 1986 and, after the collapse of the USSR, failed to help with the cleanup... The story is on YouTube." Authorities established that the text contains deliberately false information about the involvement of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in these events.
Latest event
April 3, 2026 — imprisonment begins
Timeline
· Imprisonment begins
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 5 years
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Persecution begins
Petr Sirotiuk's case of military "fakes"
Criminal case
Petr Sirotiuk's case of military "fakes"
- Case number
- 1-247/2025
Thematic group: Anti-war case
Details and sources
Full summary
An artist from Novokuznetsk. In July 2025 it became known that he was prosecuted for spreading "fakes" about the Russian army because of his February post: "A Russian drone attacked the defence structure over the 4th unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which was built by the whole of Europe!.... Well, what else country can so meanly use drones to hit an ATOMIC plant, where the Muscovites themselves caused an AMAZING nuclear accident in 1986 and after the collapse of the Soviet Union did not help in eliminating the consequences...". At the end of the post, the artist left a link to a video about this strike on the YouTube channel of the independent publication Salidarnasts, which is made by journalists from Belarus.
In May 2025, he was fined Br30 thousand under the protocol on discrediting the army because of a post in "VKontakte." Its content is unknown, but according to the court ruling, the actions of the Russian army in Ukraine were described there as invasive.
On 17 March 2026, Sirotiuk was sentenced; the details are unknown.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code
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