By Andrew Osborn

MOSCOW (Reuters) -The deputy leader of Russia’s liberal Yabloko party, which opposes the war in Ukraine, has been charged with deliberately spreading lies about the Russian army, state investigators said on Thursday.

Maxim Kruglov says he is not guilty of the charge, which can carry a jail term of up to 10 years, investigators said. A Moscow court will consider their request to place him in detention later on Thursday, a day after his arrest.

Natalya Tikhonova, a lawyer representing Kruglov, said via Yabloko that her client had been charged over the content of two posts he had made on the Telegram social media network in 2022 and that his home had been searched.

State investigators said the posts included false information about the Russian army’s purported actions aga

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