Investigative Committee finds no crime in journalist Anton Krasovsky’s call to ‘drown’ Ukrainian children

In the case of journalist Anton Krasovsky, who called for Ukrainian children to be “drowned” and “burned,” the Investigative Committee found no corpus delicti, meaning that they could not prove the crime Krasovsky was accused of had occurred.

“I report that in the appeal in question there is no evidence of committing or preparing to commit crimes against minors or with their participation,” says the document, which was posted online by Moscow City Duma deputy Evgeny Stupin, who questioned the ruling. “Remember how resolutely the chairman of the Investigative Committee ordered an investigation of Krasovsky after his call to drown Ukrainian children?” Stupin wrote on the Twitter post where he shared a picture of the Investigative Committee’s document. He added that the would ask the prosecutor to get involved.

Stupin also posted about the case on his Telegram channel. “So, he’s not kindling enmity and strife!! Apparently, the worst assumptions come true, they decided to wipe clean’ a state propagandist” he wrote, adding that he had written his own statement on holding Krasovsky criminally responsible.

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Anton Krasovsky headed RT Russia, RT’s Russian-language service. On October 24, RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan announced that the network had suspended Krasovsky because he called, live on his show Antonyms, for Ukrainian children to be “drowned” and “burned.”

Alexander Bastrykin, the head of the Investigative Committee, ordered an investigation into Krasovsky’s words. Krasovsky apologized, saying “I always wanted to be better than the enemy. My country wanted to be better than the enemy, and I’m an idiot, I got good mixed up with evil, I screwed up. I don’t know whether you can forgive me. I’ll never forgive myself.”