On 27 January 2023, Sota Vision journalist Alexey Seregin was summoned by police for publishing photos of a spontaneous memorial created in Yoshkar-Ola, the capital of Russia’s Mariy El region, which commemorated the victims of a recent Russian airstrike on a residential building in Dnipro, Ukraine. According to Seregin, police intervened after Sergey Mukhortov, the deputy mayor of Yoshkar-Ola, filed a complaint claiming that Seregin’s publication on Telegram “discredited” the Russian army. The journalist’s photos showed flowers with blue and yellow ribbons, in the colors of the Ukrainian flag, laid at a local monument to the victims of Stalinist repression. A poster was also visible with the words: “Dnipro 14.01.2023. Kyiv, Kremenchuk, Mariupol, Bucha, Vinnytsia and others. And there is no end to mourning.”