Daria Kozyreva was fined 40 thousand rubles in an administrative case about “discrediting” the army - because of her last word before the verdict in a criminal case about “discrediting” the army

The Petrogradsky District Court fined 19-year-old St. Petersburg resident Daria Kozyreva under the protocol on “discrediting” the army (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code) 40,500 rubles, a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom. The reason was the last word of the activist, which she read out at a meeting in a criminal case of “discredit” (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code).

Lawyer Rafail Polyakov insisted that this administrative protocol is pressure on Kozyreva, since the right to express one’s opinion in the last word is spelled out in the Constitution and no one should be afraid to exercise this right.

Daria Kozyreva noted that she was not given the opportunity to familiarize herself with the materials of the administrative case in the presence of a lawyer; moreover, her residential address was incorrectly indicated in the protocol (the security forces wrote that the girl lives in the Bryansk region).

The administrative protocol was based on almost the entire speech of Daria Kozyreva in court in a criminal case. The activist called this a violation of the right to defense and noted that “even murderers” are not prosecuted for words spoken in the last word.

“Friends, never stop developing, develop throughout your life to be like the Ukrainian national flag,” said Daria Kozyreva, addressing those who came to support her in court.

The Petrograd court passed the verdict on Daria Kozyreva in the criminal case of “discrediting” the army on April 18, 2025 - she was sentenced to 2 years and 8 months in prison. The reason for the criminal prosecution was an interview with Sever.Realii, as well as a leaflet with poems by Taras Shevchenko, which she pasted on the monument to the Ukrainian poet on the anniversary of the war.

Kozyreva made her last speech on the same day; Mediazona reported the activist’s speech in full . She read Taras Shevchenko’s poem “Before Osnovyanenka” in Ukrainian and talked about Ukraine’s struggle for independence.

“I seem to be saying obvious things, but they are not obvious. It’s clear that Putin can’t wrap his head around the fact that Ukraine is a sovereign nation,” Kozyreva said in court. “He has a lot, however, that he can’t wrap his head around.” Like there are human rights, democratic principles.”

Daria Kozyreva concluded her last word with the words: “I dream, of course, that Ukraine will regain every inch of its land, including Donbass and Crimea. I believe that one day my dream will come true. Someday history will judge everything fairly. But Ukraine won anyway. Already won. All".