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The father of the Russian girl who made drawings against the war in Ukraine was arrested in Belarus

MADRID, 30 Mar.

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The father of the Russian girl who made drawings against the war in Ukraine was arrested in Belarus

MADRID, 30 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Alexei Moskaliov, a Russian citizen who was sentenced on Tuesday to two years in prison in connection with a series of drawings made by his daughter against the war in Ukraine, has been detained this Thursday in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, after escaping from arrest. domiciliary tax against him.

His lawyer, Dimitri Zajvatov, has indicated that the arrest took place in a Minsk apartment because the man had a mobile phone that would have allowed him to be located, although he has not offered more details, according to information from the Meduza news portal.

The man had been wanted for two days and had been convicted of "discrediting" the Russian Armed Forces in a series of posts on social media. According to Zajvatov, the Russian authorities had charged him after "months of bullying that began when his daughter Masha, now 13, presented a series of anti-war drawings in class." On March 1, the girl was taken into custody.

The minor, who is now in a shelter, wrote a letter on Wednesday in which she tries to encourage her father: "We will win, victory will be ours." The case has attracted international attention after it has emerged that in April 2022 the girl made drawings against the war in Ukraine when the teachers asked her to paint some kind of tribute to the Russian Armed Forces.