INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
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
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.
