Another case under the same article has been opened against 18-year-old St. Petersburg resident Daria Kozyreva, who has been in pretrial detention since February on a criminal case of “discrediting” the army, Fontanka reported.
According to the publication, the reason for the new episode was a video recording on YouTube, which has already been deleted.
Kozyreva was detained on February 24 — on the anniversary of the war, she pasted a piece of paper with a quote from his poem «Testament» onto the monument to Taras Shevchenko: » Say hello and get up /Tear up the Kaidan/And sprinkle the enemy's evil blood/Sprinkle the will!».
Three days later, the girl was charged with “discrediting” the army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code) and sent to a pretrial detention center. The Petrogradsky District Court closed the hearing on the selection of a preventive measure due to the possibility of “disclosing investigative secrets and state secrets.”
At the end of December, the Moscow District Court of St. Petersburg fined Kozyreva 30 thousand rubles under a similar administrative article on “discrediting” the military (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The reason for this was a post on VKontakte written in March 2022. It was dedicated to the adoption of laws in Russia on military “fakes” and “discrediting” the army. In the publication, the St. Petersburg resident discussed the imperialistic nature of war.
In her explanations for the report, she wrote: “What is dead cannot die. This army cannot be discredited, because it has managed to discredit itself very well. Kozyreva D. is “guilty” only of stating the fact of an unjust, bloody, and criminal massacre.”
In December 2022, a report was drawn up on the then 16-year-old Kozyreva for “discrediting” the army because of the graffiti she made on Palace Square (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The schoolgirl wrote “Murderers, you bombed it” on a heart with the inscription “Mariupol.”
The installation, worth more than 1 million rubles, was dismantled and returned to the square “after cleaning.” A month later, it disappeared — the authorities reported that the sculpture was removed “as planned.”
In 2023, it became known that a case of intentional damage to property (Part 1 of Article 167 of the Criminal Code) had been opened against Kozyreva. However, since then, security forces have not carried out any investigative actions in this case. In January, Kozyreva reported that she had been expelled from St. Petersburg State University — the university cited a clause in the charter prohibiting violations of Russian law.