Pussy Riot sentenced to 6 years for tweet about war. In absentia, the activist left Russia (ANSA) The criminal case was initiated over a March 2022 tweet in which Shtein commented on an alleged video showing Ukrainian soldiers apparently shooting Russian prisoners in the legs.
“The guys came to bomb other people's cities and kill people, in response they shot them in the leg, even the Chechens were afraid of such torture,” Shtein had written, according to media reports.