A resident of Novouralsk received 18 years in prison for attempting to set fire to a military enlistment office

A military court in Yekaterinburg sentenced 44-year-old Mykola Yuryev to 18 years in prison for attempting to set fire to a military enlistment office in Novouralsk. “Kommersant” writes about this with reference to the lawyer.

Yuryev was detained on February 5. The FSB said that three improvised incendiary devices and substances for their manufacture were found at his home.

According to the investigation, he planned to throw a “Molotov cocktail” into the window of the military enlistment office in Novouralsk (a closed city in the Sverdlovsk region), seize power in a number of Ural cities, and his ultimate goal was “to overthrow the constitutional order.” It turned out at the trial that he was a supporter of the “Grazhdane SSSR” community.

“Grazhdane SSSR” is an unstructured association that was included in the list of extremist organizations by the Ministry of Justice of Russia last year. The participants of the movement believe that the USSR legally continues to exist, and the current Russian authorities and the laws they pass are illegitimate.

Yuryev was found guilty of preparing for a terrorist attack, facilitating terrorist activities and undergoing training for the purpose of carrying out terrorist activities. Yuryev will serve the first four years of his sentence in prison, after which he will be transferred to a high-security colony.

According to Mykola Yuryev, the incriminating statements given to him during the detention do not correspond to reality.

Yuryev’s lawyer Alexander Kozlov previously stated that the case against his client was fabricated. The defense will file an appeal against the indictment decision of the court.

• After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, military enlistment offices, police departments, state administration buildings and “United Russia” reception centers were set on fire all over Russia, as well as sabotage on railways. After the announcement of mobilization, the number of such attacks increased many times.
• As a result of the fires, no one was killed or injured. Detainees accused of arson are most often replaced with terrorism articles. More than 30 cases have already ended with a sentence, the most severe of which – 19 years in prison – was given to anti-war activists for setting fire to the building of the city administration of the Chelyabinsk region.