The Gagarin District Court of Moscow ordered the arrest in absentia of Illia Novikov, former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s lawyer, Novikov said on Feb. 14, publishing a copy of the court’s decision on Facebook. Novikov was accused of spreading “fake news” about the Russian military. Such charges are commonly used to try and silence perceived opponents of the regime and its military aggression against Ukraine. The Russian state news agency TASS reported that the reason for the case was Novikov’s interview in April 2022, where he spoke about the mass killings of Bucha residents by the R…