During her sentencing hearing in St Petersburg on Friday, Ms Vasilyeva was ordered to pay 10,000 rubles ($126; £93) for "discrediting" the Russian army. Russian activist Lyudmila Vasilyeva, an 84-year-old survivor of the siege of Leningrad in World War Two, has been fined by a court after protesting Russia's war in Ukraine. The 84-year-old survived the Siege of Leningrad as a very young child with her four siblings and mother. The name of the city of Leningrad was restored to its pre-Soviet era name, St Petersburg, in 1991. Ms Vasilyeva has long been a critic of Russia's war with Ukraine having been detained several times in 2022.