A 51-year-old teacher was detained in Crimea for attempting to set fire to a military enlistment office

In the annexed Crimea, a 51-year-old teacher of Russian language and literature was detained, she is suspected of trying to set fire to the military enlistment office. According to the version of the Russian law enforcement agencies, she threw a bottle with an incendiary mixture into the building of the military enlistment office in Feodosia – allegedly at the behest of a certain curator, with whom the teacher communicated via telegram.

Other details of the case are unknown. The edition “Baza” reports only the name of the detainee – Tatiana B. It is also confirmed that the building of the military enlistment office was not damaged – only a little bit of asphalt was burned near it.

• After the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, and especially after the announcement by Vladimir Putin of the so-called partial mobilization, opponents of the war in many regions of Russia began to set fire to military enlistment offices, police departments and city administration buildings. At the moment, more than a hundred such incidents are known. At the same time, no one was injured as a result of the arson.
• At first, criminal cases of arson were considered under the articles of damage to someone else’s property or hooliganism. Later, the General Staff of Russia announced that such cases would be considered acts of terrorism and would be punishable by up to 15 years in prison. The first sentence, in which the arson of the military enlistment office was qualified as a terrorist act, was handed down at the end of January 2023. Now dozens of citizens have been sentenced to long terms of imprisonment.