In Omsk, two teenagers burned down a Mi-8 military helicopter
In Omsk, two 16-year-old schoolboys sneaked into a military air base and burned the Mi-8 helicopter stationed there. Telegram channels Baza and Shot report this. The teenagers threw a “Molotov cocktail” into the helicopter and ran away. Soon they were detained by the police.
Photos from the scene show that the helicopter’s cabin and its entire front part were completely burned out. According to Shot, the car had already been written off and was in an idle state.
It is reported that some “Ukrainian curators” who corresponded with them on the Internet persuaded the schoolboys to set the fire. Allegedly, they promised to pay the teenagers 20 thousand dollars for sabotage. However, after the children set fire to the helicopter, the “curators” stopped communicating and deleted the correspondence.
A similar incident occurred on September 11 in Noyabrsk, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District. There, too, two teenagers, 13 and 14 years old, entered the territory of the airport and set fire to the helicopter parked there – admittedly, a civilian one. It is claimed that unknown people in the Telegram messenger promised them a large sum of money for this.
- 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. In some cases, the detainees claimed that they were persuaded by strangers over the Internet to commit 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 sentence, the most severe of which – 19 years in prison – was given to two anti-war activists for setting fire to the city administration building in the Chelyabinsk region.
