Iaroslav Bykov

Resident of Moscow, courier. On 2 October 2025, he was arrested for 14 days under the administrative article on demonstration of prohibited symbols (Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences) because of a post in support of the AFU, where they found symbols of the Legion "Freedom of Russia". Immediately after the end of his arrest, he was arrested under the same article for 15 days for similar symbols. Then, on 1 November, apparently detained again, this time not in the northern district of the capital, as before, but in New Moscow, already under the administrative article on petty hooliganism (Article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offences), he was again arrested for 15 days. On 17 December 2025, he was searched and later taken into custody in the case of disseminating deliberately false information about the Russian Armed Forces.