On Friday, the Russian court imposed a fine of an older woman for holding a banner calling for peace at a time when Moscow continued his military campaign in Ukraine. According to the AFP report, TASR reports this.
The court in the city of St. Petersburg in the north of the country imposed a fine of 10,000 rubles (approximately EUR 110) for the “discredit” of the Russian army, stated in a statement. Her handmade transparent she held in March on the street was written: “People, let’s stop the war. We are responsible for peace on the planet Earth. With love, Ľudmila Vasilievová, a child of Leningrad blockade.”
After the beginning of more than three years of offensive in Ukraine Moscow banned criticism of its military campaign and introduced censorship to the extent that the country worked for the last time in the Soviet Union, writes AFP. In Russia, thousands of people have accused the armed forces since the beginning of the war.
Vasiliev’s originally threatened a fine of up to 50,000 rubles (EUR 554), a relatively mild test compared to several years of withdrawal, which were received by several other critics of the Russian invasion.
Moscow’s military campaign has already claimed tens of thousands of dead and the Moscow army took control of approximately a fifth of the Ukrainian territory. “I’ve always been a person who is not indifferent to things … I’ve always been on the weaker side,” Vasiliev said in an interview in her apartment, which she provided for AFP before the judgment. “Mom has always said that we could do everything unless there is any war,” Vasilievová mentioned her mother and four siblings who had signed with her.
The German siege of St. Petersburg began in September 1941 and lasted 872 days. It died 600,000 to 1.5 million people, mostly from hunger. The Red Army ended the siege in January 1944.
