Sergei Mingazov has been detained in Khabarovsk, in the Russian Far East, for republishing "posts about the events in Bucha," according to Konstantin Bubon.

The lawyer was referring to a 2022 massacre that the Russian army has been accused of carrying out in the Kyiv suburb.

"As far as I understand, he reposted someone else's information, someone else's text from another Telegram channel," Bubon was quoted as saying by the French news agency AFP.

The posts that led to the journalist's detention were not related to Forbes, according to the Russian state news agency TASS.

Mingazov was detained under an article of the Criminal Code on the public dissemination, under the guise of reliable messages, of deliberately false information containing data on the activities of the Armed Forces, TASS said.

The Russian edition of Forbes cited the journalist's lawyer posting on the magazine's website.

"As of now, Forbes has not been able to contact Mingazov," the magazine said.

The charges against the journalist carry a potential 10-year prison sentence.

Many critics of Russia's aggression in Ukraine have been jailed on similar charges.

Several people have been convicted specifically for speaking out about the Bucha massacre, including opposition politician Ilya Yashin, who is serving an eight-and-a-half-year sentence.

On March 20, documentary filmmaker Vsevolod Koroliov was sentenced to three years in prison for denouncing Russia's responsibility in Bucha.

On April 22, Yury Kokhovets, a Russian man interviewed in the street by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, was sentenced to five years in prison for accusing the military of "firing randomly" at civilians in Bucha.

In January, human rights activist Grigory Winter was sentenced to three years in prison for spreading "false information" about the events in Bucha.

The Russian army is accused of carrying out a massacre in the town as it withdrew from the area in the spring of 2022.

Moscow has denied the accusations and denounced a Western staging operation, dismissing multiple testimonies and evidence presented by residents and Ukrainian authorities.

Russia has stepped up its crackdown on critics of the Kremlin in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022.

In February 2023, President Vladimir Putin's leading critic, Alexei Navalny, collapsed in prison in unclear circumstances.

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