As I was going to sleep on a Friday night, I picked up a news story on my Threads feed from the Kyiv Independent that terrorist Igor Girkin has been arrested. I was surprised, it was breaking news without much detail, so I knew it would be newsworthy when I woke up in the morning – I needed to go and search for this interesting online.

Igor Girkin led the invasion of Crimea in 2014, Girkin was also responsible for the downing of Malaysian Airlines MH17 over Russian held territory in the Donbas region of Ukraine. Girkin was responsible for the deaths of 283 passengers and 15 staff. Girkin was a bonafide terrorist protected by Russia, so his arrest for speaking out against Russia is a very big deal. Let us see if they actually hand him over to the International Criminal Court in The Hague – that would be a big deal.

Here is the irony, Girkin was arrested not for terrorism charges though, oh no, that is state sponsored. Vladimir Putin and the Russian state protected Girkin, instead, Girkin was arrested for criticism against the state on his Telegram channel. Girkin made statements against the Russian military and their shambolic handling of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. So Igor Girkin is not being brought to justice for the occupation of Ukraine in 2014 nor ordering a commercial airliner to be downed, he has been arrested for negative comments against Vladimir Putin – unreal.