A military appeals court has upheld the sentence against Nadin Geisler, also known as Nadezhda Rossinskaya. On June 20, 2025, the Second Western District Military Court in Belgorod sentenced her to 22 years in prison and a fine of 320,000 rubles on charges of treason, aiding terrorism, and publicly calling for activities against Russia’s security.
Before the war, Geisler worked as a photographer. After February 2022, she began helping refugees and civilians in occupied territories and later created the volunteer group “Army of Beauties”. According to her account, humanitarian aid from a warehouse she organized was sent to towns and villages in the Kharkiv, Donetsk, Luhansk, and Kherson regions.
The article notes that Geisler was detained by the FSB on February 1, 2024. Later, the security service distributed footage of the arrest and cited messages and the ua_help_nadin account as evidence, alleging it was used to raise money for the Azov Battalion. Geisler said the prosecution never proved that the account belonged to her and that investigators offered contradictory explanations of how it had appeared.
Another part of the case concerns money transfers between Ukrainian volunteers Iryna Pereborshchykova and Serhiy Kovalchuk. Prosecutors say Geisler persuaded one of them to make a transfer that may then have reached the Ukrainian military. She denied any role, stressing that she had no access to the sender’s device or banking application.
“Case materials can be fabricated, witnesses can be intimidated and created, but the truth cannot be destroyed. Today it is my main lawyer,” Geisler said in her final statement.
She also rejected claims that she crossed the front line to help the Ukrainian armed forces and pointed to contradictions in testimony from witnesses, including Ukrainian prisoners of war and a classified witness. Geisler insists that her work was purely humanitarian: delivering food, medicine, and hygiene supplies, and helping with evacuation, shelter, and medical treatment. She argues that the prosecution is tied not to any crime, but to her political views and civic stance.