A judge in St.
Petersburg sentenced 19-year-old anti-war activist Daria Kozyreva to almost 3 years in prison on Friday forrepeatedly discrediting the Russian military.Petrogradsky District Court JudgeDmitry Ovrakh orderedKozyreva to serve 2 years and eight months at a medium-security chastening nest and prohibited her from releasing anything on the web for 2 and a half years.
Prosecutors sought a six-year jail sentence.Kozyreva was detained in February 2024 after she attached a poem by Ukrainian writer Taras Shevchenko to his monument in St.
Petersburg.Law enforcement authorities brought a 2nd charge versus Kozyreva in August, mentioning her ininterview with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) following her expulsion from St.
Petersburg State University.
Kozyreva denied the charges in court on Friday.My viewpoint is that the army discredited itself after the full-scale invasion, so any declaration against it will reject absolutely nothing, she was quoted as saying by the exiled news outlet Mediazona.In her last declaration in court, Kozyreva condemned the February 2022 invasion and praised Ukrainians fordefending their homeland.Ukraine is a free nation, a complimentary nation, and it will decide its own destiny, she said.It is clear that Putin can not get his head around the idea that Ukraine is a sovereign nation.Kozyreva was released from pre-trial detention in February under constraints barring her from leaving home at night, utilizing the internet or speaking to the press till Dec.
2.
In 2023, she was fined 30,000 rubles ($365) for an anti-war social media post and expelled from university.The year before, Kozyreva was apprehended for composing Murderers, you bombed it to debris.
Judases on a public setup representing the brotherhood between St.
Petersburg and Mariupol an occupied Ukrainian city that was mainly ruined in a Russian siege.