A Moscow court on Tuesday ordered the arrests in absentia of Russian bloggers Michael Nacke and Veronika Belotserkovskaya, accusing them of discrediting the army and its offensive in Ukraine.
Nacke, a 28-year-old Kremlin critic, hosts a YouTube channel with more than 700,000 subscribers where he discusses Russia's military actions in Ukraine.
A Russian citizen, he is currently in Lithuania, he told AFP, after a Moscow court ordered his detention.
Nacke said he was accused of "calling a war a war" and prosecuted over his updates about the course of Russia's military campaign in Ukraine on his YouTube channel.
He risks up to 10 years in prison if he returns to Russia, he said.
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