Andrey Kurshin, the author of the Moscow Calling Telegram channel, was detained in Moscow – Kommersant

Military blogger Andrei Kurshin, the author of the Moscow Calling Telegram channel, was detained in Moscow at the Leningradsky railway station as part of a criminal case on fakes about the Russian army (Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Sources in law enforcement agencies told TASS about this. His arrest is also reported REN TV And Shot.

By words Andrey Kurshin, during the aggravation in the east of Ukraine (from 2014 to 2015), he fought on the side of the DPR under the call sign “Moskva”. Later, he started the Moscow Calling Telegram channel. Now 86 thousand people have subscribed to it. In the channel, Andrey Kurshin covered the course of hostilities, drew attention to the mistakes of the Russian and Ukrainian military command.

According to REN TV and Shot, Andrei Kurshin works as an engineer at the defense microelectronics enterprise Rif and has access to state secrets. Andrey Kurshin wrote in the canal that he and his retired parents were threatened.

Andrey Kurshin saidthat he “diverges views from the Z-patriots”. He cited the actions of the Russian authorities in Ukraine since February 2022 as the reason for this. “Is it really the only one I see that the Russian Federation has long surpassed Ukraine arr. 2014 according to the degree of lies and hypocrisy? he wrote. According to him, in 2014-2015 he fought for “truth, justice, the right of the people to be masters in their own land.”

Anastasia Larina