Mikhail Zvinchuk

Then he sat down in a hotel on the Bay of Kotor and told one and a half million people about it.

His name is Mikhail Zvinchuk.

He runs Rybar, the largest military Z channel on Telegram.

And his post went roughly like this: "Hello, country number twenty-six.

However, let's go back to Rybar.

Let me introduce this hero properly, because he isn't some random blogger who wandered into the wrong country.

Mikhail Zvinchuk, you see, is a military translator, an Arabist who served in Syria and Iraq in the mid-2010s, and then ran the Foreign Language Internet Projects Department at the Defense Ministry's press service.

The department of Igor Konashenkov, the man who spent the first years of this war reading out how many Ukrainian aircraft Russia had shot down that day, and, uh, well, that's a number that eventually exceeded the size of Ukrainian Air Force several times over.

Police in Montenegro have arrested the founder of Rybar, a pro-Kremlin Russian military blog and disinformation group.

Mikhail Zvinchuk was arrested on Friday alongside his wife and three other Russian nationals.

He was detained, questioned, and deported from the country.

According to local media, the five were filming a documentary as part of a Russian influence operation.

Montenegro's police and its national security agency begged to differ, disagree.

Zvinčuk, his wife, and Rybar creative director Valeria Zvinčuk and three associates were detained.

By the evening, the state had ordered them out of the country on grounds of national security.

Within hours, Medvedev was on Telegram threatening to seize European and American citizens as bargaining chips.

No other details were given.

The blogger Mikhail Zvinchuk is a former military officer who served in the Russian Defense Ministry's press office.

He founded Rybar, a Telegram channel with more than one and a half million followers and has strongly supported Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Police says Zvinchuk and the others were detained in the coastal town of Rison, where they had been staying in a hotel.