I mean, what can I say, poor him, but that’s the price ye pay when ye do the below for some provocateurs…

The detention of then-14-year-old Valery and his 18-year-old friend Nikita in Solnechny, a 12,000-person village in Khabarovsk krai, became known in October 2023. According to Baza, a Telegram news media channel, the youths “sympathised” with the Ukrainian Azov Brigade: Nikita allegedly administered “groups and chats” on Telegram and VK, “propagating the battalion’s ideology,” while Valery “engaged in practical activities and also supported Azov.”

“The provocateurs brought this petrol, showed how to do everything, and Valery posted it,” she laments. “And it’s as if he wrote something else… I forgot… ‘There’s more to come,’ or something like that…”