In St. Petersburg, the court sent a university graduate student to a pre-trial detention center in the case of broken windows of the military registration and enlistment office and anti-war inscriptions

The Vyborg District Court of St. Petersburg arrested Alferov University graduate student Vladimir Mironov, who is accused of breaking the windows of a military registration and enlistment office and leaving anti-war inscriptions on it. This was reported by the press service of the city courts.

A case was opened against Mironov under articles of hooliganism (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code) and repeated “discrediting” of the army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, on February 26, a graduate student, with the intent to commit public actions aimed at discrediting the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, painted “certain inscriptions” on the building of the military registration and enlistment office and damaged the glass in the windows of the commissariat.

As Fontanka and Baza wrote , the man wrote on the walls of the military registration and enlistment office of the Vyborg district in “half-meter letters” the phrases “No to war,” “Stop killing,” and “How much can you kill.”

The man’s arrest became known on February 27. Fontanka sources claimed that 25-year-old Mironov was tracked via surveillance cameras.

Mironov was previously fined under the article on “discrediting” the actions of the Russian military in Ukraine (Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code). the Kuibyshevsky District Court in January The report of a man with the same name was considered by . The decision was appealed and has not yet entered into force. Without a decision under an administrative article that has entered into force, it is impossible to open a similar criminal case.