A court has sentenced former Channel One producer Kapitolina Averina to 6.5 years in prison on charges of public calls for terrorism. Averina was accused due to social media comments, including a post calling to 'bomb Moscow,' which she reportedly published in a state of shock after the death of her partner, Yuri Stratiy, a serviceman of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Averina reportedly published the comment calling to 'bomb Moscow' in a state of shock after the death of her partner, Yuri Stratiy, a serviceman of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. She was living in Estonia at the time but returned to Russia in early 2026 to visit her sick mother, after which she was detained.