Russian teacher fired after telling her students that prison was better than being Putin's cannon fodder

Olga Lizunkova is accused of saying that prison was better than becoming "cannon fodder" for her students who risked being called under Putin's Mobilization Campaign

University professor Olga LIzunkova, 25 years old (

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A university professor has been fired under Vladimir Putin's draconian laws after telling his students that prison is better than being his 'cannon fodder'.

Olga Lizunkova, 25, was reported to the police by one or more of her students from Nizhny Novgorod University of Engineering and Economics.

The English teacher is waiting to see if she will be jailed for up to five years or fined for 'discrediting the Russian military'.

She is accused of telling her students - who risked being called up as part of Putin's mobilization campaign - that Ukraine "is stronger and will win anyway".

It was better to go to prison than to become "cannon fodder" in Ukraine, she would have advised them.

Olga is now in trouble with the authorities over her "monologue" to students which was delivered two days after Putin announced the partial mobilization of 300,000 civilian reservists, BAZA media reported.

Olga LIzunkova, 25, pictured with her husband Nikita Getrov (

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She has since said, "I didn't advise them to go to jail. They twisted me. I said jail is better than war."

The university administration said today that Lizunkova "no longer seems to be working" in her job.

This was taken as an indication that she had been fired.

The married teacher can be fined up to £740 or jailed for up to five years if her words are found to discredit the Russian military.