Daria Kozyreva

Darya Alexandrovna Kozyreva (; 7 October 2005) is a Russian anti-war activist. In April 2025, she was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison for "discrediting" the Russian Army.

Activism Kozyreva opposed the Russian invasion of Ukraine from its beginning in February 2022, and criticized the war on her social media. In March 2022, Kozyreva posted on VK against the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Russian censorship laws. She was in 10th grade at the time. In August 2022, she and her boyfriend were detained after tearing pro-war symbols off of military vehicles in Kronstadt; due to her status as a minor, she was not taken to court. In September 2022, she wrote against President Vladimir Putin's announcement of mobilization online, saying "Is it possible that this vile panopticon, the creatures sitting in the State Duma, the creatures that make up the government, the bastard president, have all lost the last remnants of their minds talking about mobilisation? Have they ever had a conscience or known fear?" The excerpts, from Shevchenko's poem "My Testament", read "Oh bury me, then rise ye up / And break your heavy chains / And water with the tyrants’ blood /The freedom you have gained.". Her court hearing was not open to the public, but the court press reported that Kozyreva "maintains stable ties with opposition movements, including representatives outside the Russian Federation, acting in the interests of foreign states".

Kozyreva was kept in pretrial detention for nearly a year. While in detention, Kozyreva wrote a letter urging other Russians to speak out, noting that "When everyone overcomes their fear and speaks out, it will be time for Putin’s gang to be afraid. No evil lives forever, every dictatorship is bound to come to an end. It may collapse under its own weight, as the USSR did, or it may collapse because the people are finally rising up against it".

In August 2024, additional charges were brought against Kozyreva regarding an interview with Radio Free Europe in which she called Russia's invasion of Ukraine "monstrous" and "criminal".

Her trial began in October 2024 and continued into December. In February 2025, Kozyreva was released from pretrial detention into house arrest. In April 2025, she was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison, a shorter sentence than prosecutors had sought.