A resident of Kuban was sentenced to 11 years in the case of arson on the railway

The Krasnodar Regional Court sentenced 19-year-old local resident Ilya Mironychev to 11.5 years in prison. He was found guilty of setting fire to a relay box on the railway. This is reported on the court’s website.

Myronychev was charged with sabotage and involvement of a minor in a crime. According to the sentence, he must spend the first year of imprisonment in prison, the rest of the term – in a high-security colony.

According to the investigation, on May 2, 2023, Myronychev set fire to a relay box on the railway in the village of Agronom, near the village of Dynskaya. He was accompanied by an underage friend who filmed it on camera. Investigators say that Myronychev decided to destroy the equipment after he received a telegram from unknown people offering to start arson for 10 thousand rubles.

There is no information about whether there was any punishment for Myronychev’s alleged underage accomplice.

• After the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, and especially after the announcement by Vladimir Putin Opponents of the so-called partial mobilization in many regions of Russia began to set fire to military enlistment offices, police departments, city administration buildings, and relay boxes on railways. At the moment, several hundred such incidents are known. According to “Mediazone”, more than 100 criminal cases were initiated only for attacks on railway infrastructure. The fifth part of all accused are minors.
• At first, criminal cases of arson were considered under the articles of damage to someone else’s property or hooliganism. Later, the authorities declared that such cases would be regarded as acts of terrorism and sabotage and would be punished by imprisonment for many years, up to life.