A Ukrainian court sentences a Russian TV presenter to five years in prison 

(Reuters) - A Ukrainian court has handed down a five-year prison sentence in absentia to a pro-war Russian TV presenter who advocated the drowning of Ukrainian children, officials said on Friday.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said Krasovsky was convicted of genocide and of calling for Anton Krasovsky to overthrow Ukraine's constitutional order.

Kraskovsky told state-controlled RT in October that Ukrainian children who saw Russians occupied under the Soviet Union had to be "thrown straight into a river with a strong current". Krasovsky later apologized but was suspended over the remarks.

"Since last February, it has openly supported the mass invasion of the Russian Federation, condoned the crimes committed by racists and called for the genocide of the Ukrainian people," the Security Service of Ukraine said in a statement.