A panel of three judges led by Viktor Rogov replaced the wording of an aggravating circumstance from "the crime was committed during an armed conflict" to "during mobilization," which added two months to the term, the SOTAvision correspondent reported from the courtroom.

The hearing was held behind closed doors. It had been postponed because Savelyeva was being placed in a punishment cell, Novaya Gazeta Europe reported.

In April, Savelyeva was sentenced to 15 years in a penal colony and a fine of 400,000 rubles. She was detained in October 2024 in the Kursk region, after which she was held under administrative arrest until mid-December on the pretext of disobeying police orders. In December she was transferred to a pretrial detention center under a criminal case.

According to the Federal Security Service (FSB) investigation, Savelyeva underwent "military training" in Kazakhstan, after which she planned to join the Ukrainian army. She herself said she wanted to get to Ukraine to reunite with her beloved, a Ukrainian Armed Forces serviceman named Alexander.

"We tried many ways for her to get here to me. When Ukrainian troops entered the Kursk region, Sveta was in Armenia, if I'm not mistaken. And suddenly she says: I've arrived, I'll try to get to territory controlled by Ukraine. The biggest mistake was that I allowed her to go to Kursk after all," the Ukrainian serviceman told journalists from Sever.Realities.

According to the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Russia, Mariana Katzarova, after her detention Savelyeva was held for about two months under alternating administrative arrests and was tortured to obtain a confession. FSB officers, according to Sever.Realities, kept her in the cold without clothes, beat and strangled her, used an electric shock device, and threatened her with death and sexualized violence.

As evidence, the investigation used photographs of train stations from Savelyeva's phone and her correspondence with Alexander, as well as a Kazakh banking application installed on her device, which could have received money transfers from the Ukrainian serviceman.

In the summer, Savelyeva's mother told the publication Lyudi Baikala that her daughter was not given necessary medications in the Kursk pretrial detention center. As a result, the young woman lost weight down to 40 kilograms at a height of 168 centimeters. In the detention center, Savelyeva developed diseases of the musculoskeletal and cardiovascular systems.

Savelyeva's mother, who was forced to leave Russia, and her boyfriend are trying to secure her exchange.