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The Samara Central District Military Court has sentenced 27-year-old Polina Yevtushenko to 14 years in a general regime penal colony. This was reported by RusNews.
The prosecutor had asked for 18 years, noting as a mitigating circumstance that the woman has a seven-year-old daughter.
Yevtushenko was charged under six articles:
🟧 preparation for high treason;
🟧 calls for extremism;
🟧 calls for terrorism;
🟧 rehabilitation of Nazism;
🟧 military “fake news”;
🟧 financing terrorism.
Most of the charges relate to posts on social media. She has been in custody since July 2023. At the time of her arrest, her daughter was five years old.
Initially, Yevtushenko was charged only with preparation for high treason. The FSB claimed that she had encouraged a resident of Samara to join the “Freedom of Russia” Legion and had published instructions for Russian soldiers on how to surrender.
The news outlet Holod found that the case was initiated following a report made by 36-year-old Samara resident Nikolai Komarov. He had met Yevtushenko himself on VKontakte, where she published anti-war posts. Komarov asked her many questions about the “Freedom of Russia” Legion and secretly recorded their conversations.
“The recordings are edited. The parts that could have exonerated me have been removed, and you can tell because the conversations just cut off abruptly,” Yevtushenko wrote to journalists from the pre-trial detention centre.
She insists that, from the full recordings of their conversations, it is clear that she was not trying to encourage Komarov but was, on the contrary, discouraging him from taking part in the war in Ukraine.