In St. Petersburg, a university graduate student who smashed the windows of a military registration and enlistment office and left anti-war graffiti on them was sentenced to 4 years in prison

The Vyborg District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced Vladimir Mironov, a postgraduate student at Alferov University, to 4 years in a general regime penal colony. In February 2023, he broke the windows of the Vyborg District military registration and enlistment office and wrote anti-war graffiti on its walls. He was found guilty under articles on hooliganism (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code) and repeated "discrediting" of the Russian army (Part 2 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the united press service of the courts of St. Petersburg.

The report says that on February 26 last year, Mironov came to the commissariat and "motivated by political, ideological hatred and enmity, as well as hatred towards military personnel" of Russia and because of his rejection of the war in Ukraine, broke the glass of two windows with a wrench. In doing so, he "created noise and caused property damage in the amount of 25,000 rubles."

Afterwards, Mironov painted “inscriptions expressing an opinion about the SVO” on the facade of the military registration and enlistment office building, causing damage in the amount of 6,600 rubles.

After the arrest of the man, who became known on February 27, 2023, Fontanka and Baza wrote that he wrote the phrases “No to war,” “Stop killing,” and “How much more can you kill” in “half-meter letters.”

The court sent him to a pretrial detention center. The press service reported that Mironov partially admitted his guilt and compensated for the damage caused.

Before the criminal case, Mironov was fined under the article on "discrediting" the actions of Russian military personnel in Ukraine (Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The protocol of a man with this name was considered by the Kuibyshev District Court in January 2023. The decision was appealed , and at the time of the man's arrest it had not yet entered into force - without this, it is impossible to initiate a similar criminal case.