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Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Prepared by The Messenger Staff

Rada pro-Russian MP, Putin's friend Viktor Medvedev Arrested in Ukraine

Rada pro-Russian MP and close to Putin, Viktor Medvedev, was arrested in Ukraine.

A photo of the detainee was released by the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, and he said that the security service had conducted a special operation. Details are still unknown.

Medvedev is a propagandist of pro-Russian ideas in Ukraine and a lobbyist for Russian interests. He is an opposition platform - a leader for life. Putin is the godfather of Medvedev's son.

Medvedev is suspected of high treason and was under house arrest before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. After the Russian attack, it was reported that his wife had fled to Belarus, and later Medvedev also fled.



Putin says Bucha is ‘Just as Fake’ as Assad's Use of Chemical Weapons

Russian President Vladimir Putin says the massacre in Bucha by Russian troops is ‘Fake’

As Putin claims, "similar provocations" were being made in Syria when Bashar al-Assad was accused of using chemical weapons in Syria.

"It was later revealed that this is a fake. It is the same fake as in Bucha," Putin told a joint news conference with his Belarusian counterpart.

Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24. Thousands of civilians were killed. More than 10 million people became refugees and refugees. Russian soldiers brutally beat civilians.

Hundreds of civilians have been found here in the Kyiv region after the city of Bucha was liberated from the Russians. Some of them were in the basement, contracted, and bullets had been fired from behind. Russians kill women, children, and the elderly.