Alexei Moskalev, 53, was arrested on his way to work for a picture his daughter drew with the Ukrainian flag and a Russian flag with the phrases “No to war” and “Glory to Ukraine” written on it. Since the father was her only caregiver, young Masha (in the sixth grade) was taken away to an orphanage where, depending on his sentencing, she may stay or be put into foster care because, well, that's Russia.
Source: Moscow Times
Russian authorities have arrested a single father and sent his daughter to an orphanage after she drew an anti-war picture at school, the independent rights watchdog OVD-Info reported Wednesday.
Alexei Moskalev, 53, and his daughter Masha Moskaleva, 12, came to the attention of local law enforcement in the town of Yefremov in the Tula region, south of Moscow, in April 2022, when Moskaleva drew an anti-war painting in her sixth-grade art class.
The painting featured a Ukrainian flag and a Russian flag with the phrases “No to war” and “Glory to Ukraine” written on it, as well as a woman shielding her child from Russian missiles.
Days later, Moskalev was charged with “discrediting” the Russian military for an anti-war comment he left on the Russian social media platform Odnoklassniki, OVD-Info reported.
