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Russian activist Lidmila Vasiliev, an 84-year-old, who survived the siege of Leningrad in World War II, was fined after a protest against the Russian war in Ukraine.
During the hearing on the sentence in St. Petersburg on Friday, Ms. Vasiliev was ordered to pay 10,000 rubles ($ 126; £ 93) for “discredit” the Russian army.
The accusations related to the manuscript, which it took place earlier this year, read: “People, let’s stop the war. We are responsible for peace on the planet Earth. With love, Ludmila Vasiliev, a child blockade of Leningrad.”
Russia hacked criticism of its hostilities in Ukraine since the launch of a full -scale invasion of a neighbor in 2022.
In an interview with AFP on the eve of the Kuibashevsky district court, she said on Friday that she feels “bitter” and “painfully” over the fate of her country.
“I have always been a person who was not indifferent since childhood. I have always been on the side of the weak,” she said.
She was met by dozens of supporters outside the courtroom. The footage showed that she was kept flowers and applauded.
The 84-year-old guy survived the siege of Leningrad as a very young child with his four siblings and mothers.
Nazi Germany’s military blockade lasted 872 days, from September 8, 1941 to January 27, 1944. About 800,000 people were killed in starvation, cold and shelling of Nazi troops.
Speaking to AFP, Mrs. Vasilieva reminded that her mother had said to her: “” We are experiencing everything until there is a war. “
The name of the city of Leningrad was restored to his pre -Soviet era of St. Petersburg in 1991.
Ms. Vasiliev has long been a critic of the Russian war with Ukraine, which was detained several times in 2022.
Last year, she ran on St. Petersburg’s governor, but was unable to collect the required number of signatures for the selection, as reported by the BBC Russia.
The Russian law, which punishes the “discredit” of the army, is applied to the broad various actions that the Kremlin explains both the support of Ukraine or the criticism of war.
These include a reflection of anti -war posters, with reports that range from “without war” to eight stars – the number of Russian letters written “without war”.
The war in Ukraine has been raging for more than three years, and military experts estimates from 165,000 to 235,000 Russian officials killed after a full -scale invasion.
In the last December 2024, Ukraine updated its loss figures when the president of the Bolodimir Zelensky recognized 43,000 Ukrainian military deaths. Western analysts believe that this figure is insufficient.
