A college student was sentenced to 5 years for attempting to set fire to a military enlistment office

The Central District Military Court in Yekaterinburg sentenced a resident of the Chelyabinsk region to five years of imprisonment in a general regime colony on the charge of attempted terrorist attack – we are talking about the attempt to set fire to the military enlistment office. At the time of the attempt, he had not reached the age of majority, reports TASS with reference to the press service of the FSB in the Chelyabinsk region.

The name of the convicted person and the circumstances of what he was accused of are not mentioned in the message. Apparently, we are talking about a student of the Ufa college named Herman K. In the summer of last year, it was reported that a 17-year-old student had been detained for trying to set fire to a military enlistment office in the city of Asha. During the interrogation, he said that he did it as a sign of protest against the war in Ukraine, “OVD-Info” notes. The TASS report states that the student was “a supporter of the ideology of the Ukrainian nationalist organization.”

Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has discovered 220 cases of attacks on military enlistment offices and government facilities, as well as 184 cases of sabotage on railways. The representative of the department, Stanislav Kolesnyk, reported this the day before, Interfax reports. There were 15 minors among those brought to justice for arson requests. The case of Egor Balazeykin, a schoolboy from St. Petersburg, who was sentenced to 6 years in prison on charges of two attempts to set fire to military enlistment centers, which the court considered to be acts of terrorism, gained notoriety.