The poster was so strongly glued to the monument that police were unable to remove it and had to cover it with a black plastic bag.

#Kozyreva was initially charged with vandalism in January last year after she left a comment in December 2022 on an art installation symbolizing "friendship" between #St_Petersburg and #Ukraine's city of #Mariupol, which was destroyed by #Russian bombs at the start of the invasion.

-RFE/RL

@worldnewschat

#Kozyreva was detained on February 24, the second anniversary of #Russia's full-scale invasion of #Ukraine, after she glued a poster on a monument to prominent #Ukrainian writer, poet, and thinker #Taras_Shevchenko with an excerpt of a well-known poem from his book, My Testament:

Oh, bury me, then rise ye up

And break your heavy chains

And water with the tyrants' blood

The freedom you have gained.