In Russia, a judge at the Petrograd District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced 19-year-old Daria Kozyreva to 2 years and 8 months in a penal colony in a case of "discrediting" the army - during her speech, the girl testified to the strength of Ukrainians and admitted that Ukraine had already won.
The girl's speech was published by the Russian publication "Mediazona".
It is known that the case was based on two episodes - an interview with Sever.Realiya, as well as a sheet of poems by Taras Shevchenko, which she pasted on a monument to the Ukrainian poet on the anniversary of the war.
The girl managed to give a speech in court that shook the Internet. She said that Taras Shevchenko was her favorite poet, and his poems could not "discredit" the army of the Russian Federation, since he lived at a time when the Russian Federation did not yet exist.
"If Taras Grigorovich were to accidentally come to our time, here, perhaps, the phrase expected from me is that he would be quietly amazed. No, he would not even be surprised - from the word at all. He would see the picture all too familiarly. Muscovy is climbing again.
Of course, the war did not start in 2022, and even in a narrow sense, the starting point should be considered 2014. In 2014, the same Russians, who are guilty of every drop of blood shed, started it. In a broad sense, the war has been going on not even since 1914, but for hundreds of years.
An amazing feature of Russian history. No matter what regime reigned here, it was as if religion did not allow this regime to simply take Ukraine and leave it alone. The tsars and communists were no different from each other, no matter what clothes they tried to put on."
She also called for finally breaking away from Ukraine:
"It would seem that after so many centuries they could have understood: well, get off your ass, get off your ass. Yes, Moscow won, won a lot, but it never saw the final victory. And it never will. The Ukrainian people will not give it any more. It has had enough... Ukraine is a free country, a free nation, and it will decide its own fate. If someone broadcasts the narratives of the invader, Ukrainians will hate him. And there is nothing to say about Ukrainian nationalists. They proved it themselves."
Daria Kozyreva sincerely wished Russians to simply remember the common truths:
"If someone goes to Ukraine, they will be beaten. And, perhaps, it will hurt. I sincerely wish that Russians would simply remember these basic truths. Ukraine, once again, is a free nation. It will decide for itself how to go down the road. It will decide for itself who to consider its friend and brother. And who - a fierce enemy. It will decide for itself how to relate to its history. And even more so, it will decide for itself what language to speak.
"I seem to be saying obvious things, but they are not obvious. It is clear that Putin does not get it into his head that Ukraine is a sovereign nation. However, he has many things that he does not get into his head. Like human rights, democratic principles."
She also noted that even those who supposedly oppose Putin's rule do not always understand this.
During her performance, the girl was tried to be interrupted.
"I have to interrupt you again, this is not a history lesson," Judge Ovrach intervened.
But the girl continued:
"Now for the present. Today, the shackles have long been thrown off. No one will put them on Ukraine again. The people have shed blood for their freedom for centuries. They will never give this freedom to anyone again. Ukrainians remember, remember perfectly how their ancestors once fought... I dream, of course, that Ukraine will regain every inch of its land, including Donbas and Crimea. I believe that one day my dream will come true. Someday, history will judge everything fairly. But Ukraine won anyway. It has already won. Everything."
We also previously reported how Russian musician Andrey Makarevich sent a pesky Russian journalist away.