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Kuzmina Polina Nikolaevna

Date of birth: September 23, 1975 (50 years old)
Article of the Criminal Code:  275 (через ч. 5 ст. 33)
Form of repression:  deprivation of liberty
Pursuit stage:  currently serving a sentence
Sentence:  12 лет лишения свободы в колонии общего режима, штраф 400.000 рублей
Date of sentencing:  September 29, 2025
Current location:  Penal Colony No.28, Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for Perm Krai

Kuzmina Polina Nikolaevna was born on September 23, 1975. She is a citizen of Ukraine and Russia; she lived in Moscow and worked caring for elderly people.

On September 29, 2025, she was sentenced to 12 years in a general-regime penal colony and fined 400,000 rubles under Part 5 of Article 33 and Article 275 of the Russian Criminal Code (“Aiding and abetting high treason”); further details are unknown.

She remains in custody.