More than a year after banning the sharing of drone-strike footage, St. Petersburg issues its first fine for such activity
A magistrate in St. Petersburg fined Shakhzodbek Tursunbaev 4,000 rubles for posting a video online showing the aftermath of a drone attack, a spokesperson for the St. Petersburg court system said.
In St. Petersburg, a magistrate fined Shakhzodbek Tursunbaev 4,000 rubles for sharing a video online depicting the aftermath of a drone attack, according to a spokesperson from the St. Petersburg court system. The video, posted on July 24, featured the aftermath of strikes on Wildberries warehouses in Shushary and the Utkina Zavod industrial zone in the Leningrad region, as reported by the Russian Telegram news channel Ostorozhno Novosti.
This marks the first fine issued by St. Petersburg authorities since they banned the sharing of images depicting drone attack aftermath in January 2025. Residents across Russia have faced detention for posting such videos in recent months, including those in Volgograd and Krasnodar for sharing footage of Wildberries warehouse fires caused by Ukrainian drones.
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