Journalist Ksenia Luchenko was sentenced in absentia to eight years in prison for her article about the Russian attack on the Ukhmatdet children’s hospital in Kiev.

The Gagarinsky District Court of Moscow sentenced Ksenia Luchenko, journalist and author of the Telegram channel “Orthodoxy and Zombies,” to eight years in prison in absentia, after she was found guilty of publishing “false information” about the Russian army (paragraph “d” of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). About this I mentioned “Caution, news.”

The cause of the criminal case was Luchenko’s publication on the Orthodoxy and Zombies channel about the Russian attack on the Ukhmatdet Children’s Hospital in Kiev, which she published in July 2024.

The Investigative Committee announced the opening of a criminal case against Luchenko in September 2025. The Investigative Committee’s press release then stated that the journalist published on the website of an “undesirable” organization and in one of the instant messengers “posts containing, according to research, deliberately false information about the actions of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on the territory of another state.” The Investigative Committee looked into the publication of a post on the website of an “undesirable” organization. print Posted by Loshenko on Echo website.

In May 2025, the Russian Ministry of Justice declared Ksenia Lutchenko a “foreign agent.”