A TikTok user, who justified the attacks on the capital by Russian occupiers at the train station in Kyiv, has been charged and placed under nighttime house arrest.
According to a statement on the website of the Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office, the investigation revealed that a native of Donetsk region, using her own TikTok account, spread materials in support of Russia.
In October of this year, while at the Kyiv railway station during an air raid, she posted a video containing statements that justified Russia's actions.
"Furthermore, during the investigation, it was established that in 2023, the suspect also posted a video accompanied by music and the text 'for me, Russia is mother', while she had drawn a map of the so-called 'DPR/LPR' on her face," the statement said.
The prosecutor's office noted that a judicial linguistic examination confirmed that the suspect's statements in the published videos deny the armed aggression of Russia against Ukraine, which began in 2014, and glorify individuals carrying out armed aggression against Ukraine while justifying the temporary occupation of part of Ukraine's territory.
The woman has been informed of the suspicion of justifying and denying the armed aggression of Russia against Ukraine, which started in 2014, committed repeatedly (part 2, 3 of article 436-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
She has been placed under nighttime house arrest. The penalty for this article provides for imprisonment for up to eight years.
Incident with the TikToker at the Kyiv Railway Station
On October 7, Russia struck Kyiv with missiles. During the air attack, the woman at the capital's railway station praised Russian invaders.
Law enforcement detained her near the station in one of the food establishments. The offender turned out to be a native of the Donetsk region, born in 2001, who had recently been living in Kyiv.
In a video recorded at the station, she says: "...here, basically, the Russians are giving a hard time to the Ukrainians - they're really hitting hard. And look, like rats, they ran (and she pointed the camera at people going down to the underground passage - Ed.)."
Sources from UNIAN in law enforcement reported that the detainee is an internally displaced person named Alina Voloshina, born on September 3, 2001, in the city of Makeevka, Donetsk region. This area has been controlled by Russia-backed militants of the so-called 'DPR' since 2014. Journalists also learned that the girl lives in the city of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi in the Odesa region.