In Koma, a pensioner was sentenced to 5 years for attempting to set fire to a military enlistment office

Nadezhda Kornilova, a pensioner from Usinsk (Republic of Koma), was sentenced to five years in prison in a criminal case of attempting to set fire to a military enlistment office. This was reported to Sever.Realia by an acquaintance of Kornilova. Information about this also appeared on the website of the 2nd Western District Military Court.

The verdict of 61-year-old Kornilova was handed down on December 19, it became known about it only today. As TASS writes with reference to the court, the sentence was handed down under the article “terrorist attack”, and its relative lenience is explained by the fact that Kornylova contributed to the discovery of the crime.

Now Nadezhda Kornylova is in pre-trial detention center No. 3 in Vorkuta. She was diagnosed with hypertension. It is known that the pensioner has two sons, one of whom is currently in prison, but should be released soon. Information about Sever.Realii’s second son is not available.

Other relatives of Kornilova are outside Koma. No one visits the pensioner in the pre-trial detention center, her friends in Usynsk have no opportunity to collect her transfer. According to their data, Kornylova cannot now buy products in the store of the pre-trial detention center, as there is no money in her account. Presumably, this may be due to the fact that the pensioner is included in the register of terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring (accounts are blocked in this case, money cannot be transferred from them to an account in a pre-trial detention center).

Nadezhda Kornylova was detained on April 11, 2023. According to the investigation, she made two “Molotov cocktails” and came with them to the building of the military enlistment office in Usinsk. As Kominform published with reference to its sources, Kornylova threw one bottle of flammable liquid towards the entrance door, but the liquid did not catch fire. The pensioner did not have time to light the second bottle and simply threw it in the direction of the building. At that moment, she was detained by a policeman guarding the military enlistment office. The court placed her in SIZO. At the court – as reported by TASS – Kornylova said that people who introduced themselves as employees of law enforcement agencies and a bank convinced her over the phone that there was a criminal in the building of the military enlistment office who was planning to steal her money.

• Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, military enlistment offices, police departments, city administration buildings, and “United Russia” receptions have been set on fire all over Russia. After the announcement of mobilization, the number of such attacks increased. Currently, there are 113 requests for arson.
• No one died as a result of the fires. Those detained on charges after the spring of 2022, when the cases became massive, are most often charged with an article about terrorism. More than 30 cases have already ended with a verdict, the most severe of which – 19 years in prison – was handed down to two anti-war activists for setting fire to the city administration building in the Chelyabinsk region.
• On December 13, the court in the same Usinsk sentenced a local resident to 12 years in prison in the case of setting fire to the building of the FSB city office. He was found guilty of committing a terrorist attack.