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In December 2022, aged just 17, Kozyreva sprayed "Murderers, you bombed it. Judases" in black paint on a sculpture of two intertwined hearts, erected outside St Petersburg's Hermitage Museum & representing the city's links with #Mariupol, a #Ukraine city largely razed to the ground during a siege by #Russia that spring.

In early 2024, after being fined 30,000 roubles ($370) for posting about Ukraine online, Kozyreva was expelled from the medical faculty of St Petersburg State University.

💛 #Ukraine returns 277 soldiers from #Russian captivity

Among them are soldiers of the Armed Forces of #Ukraine, the National Guard of #Ukraine, the State Special Transport Service, and border guards. They defended #Mariupol and other areas in the #Donetsk, #Kherson, #Zaporizhia, and #Luhansk regions.

"I thank everyone who made this return of our people possible. I am especially grateful to the #United_Arab_Emirates for their mediation," President #Zelenskyy said.

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He fought in #Mariupol since the beginning of the full-scale invasion. He died while performing a combat mission on April 3, 2022.

His body was only identified a year later, thanks to a tattoo.

🎖#Mykhailo was awarded the medal "#Defender_of_Mariupol", the award of the President of #Ukraine "For participation in the ATO", the award of the #Azov Regiment "#Shyrokynska_Operation" and the Order "For Courage" of the 3rd degree (posthumously).

🕯We remember.

📹 Memorial