Alexei Moskalyov’s 13-year-old daughter has been positioned in a kids’s house after drawing Russian missiles raining down on a Ukrainian mom and youngster.

A Russian man whose daughter drew an anti-war image at college has been sentenced to 2 years in a penal colony on expenses of discrediting the armed forces.

Courtroom officers, nevertheless, stated that Alexei Moskalyov was not current for the sentencing on Tuesday as he had fled from home arrest in a single day. The 54-year-old had been sporting a bracelet that tracked his actions however apparently had taken it off, and his whereabouts remained unclear.

The one father has been separated from his 13-year-old daughter Masha since he was positioned beneath home arrest in the beginning of this month and he or she was moved to a kids’s house of their hometown of Yefremov, south of Moscow.

His lawyer, Vladimir Biliyenko, stated he had not seen his consumer since Monday and didn’t know whether or not he had fled.

“In the meanwhile, to be trustworthy, I’m in a state of shock,” Biliyenko informed Reuters information company. He added the defence would attraction towards the decision and Masha would stay within the kids’s house in the meanwhile.

Moskalyov was accused of repeatedly discrediting the Russian military, an act that was outlawed shortly after Russia’s President Vladimir Putin despatched troops into Ukraine and that carries a jail sentence of a number of years.

The investigation began after Masha drew an image final April exhibiting Russian missiles raining down on a Ukrainian mom and youngster.

The drawing, which featured a Ukrainian flag with the phrases “Glory to Ukraine” and a Russian tricolour with the slogan “No to warfare”, prompted the pinnacle of her college to name the police.

Russian authorities started inspecting Moskalyov’s social media exercise and he was initially fined 35,000 roubles ($460) for feedback important of the Russian military.

His condominium was raided in December and a prison case was opened towards him this month. He was positioned beneath home arrest and his daughter was taken away from him and put in an orphanage.

On the trial on Monday, Moskalyov rejected the accusations and insisted that he had nothing to do with the social media posts in query.

Moskalyov was scheduled to look in courtroom once more subsequent week at a listening to on a petition to strip him of his parental rights.

Biliyenko, the lawyer, stated he visited Masha on Tuesday within the kids’s house, formally named “Social Rehabilitation Centre For Minors Quantity 5”.

He got here away with drawings she had made for her father and was allowed to {photograph} a letter she had written him that learn: “Dad, you might be my hero”.

The case has provoked an outcry amongst Russian human rights activists and sparked a web-based marketing campaign to reunite father and daughter.