A Russian lawmaker has called for legal action against President Vladimir Putin for calling the conflict in Ukraine a "war" instead of using an official term coined by Moscow.During a press conference on Thursday, Putin saidRussiawants to "end this war" as soon as possible, referring to the fighting in Ukraine.Officials in Moscow typically refer to the conflict as a "special military operation" in line with new legislation that criminalizes what authorities deem to be misleading descriptions ofRussia's 10-month intervention."Vladimir Putin called the war a war but there was no decree to end the special military operation and no war was declared ...
I sent an appeal to the authorities so Putin can see justice for spreading 'fake news' about the army," Nikita Yuferev, a lawmaker from St.
Petersburg, said on social media Thursday.He posted images showing complaints addressed toRussia's prosecutor-general and interior minister.A court in Moscow this month sentenced opposition politician Ilya Yashin to eight-and-a-half years in prison for spreading "false information" aboutRussia's offensive in Ukraine, the highest-profile conviction under the new legislation.Another Moscow councilor, Alexei Gorinov, was sentenced to seven years in prison in July for speaking out against the Ukraine offensive.