The conscript was sentenced to 7 years for setting fire to the military enlistment office in Vladivostok

A military court in Vladivostok sentenced a conscript to seven years in prison for setting fire to a military enlistment office – it was classified as a terrorist attack.

According to the court verdict, in June, a 21-year-old conscript set fire to the local military enlistment office in order to destabilize its activities and influence the decision to end the war in Ukraine.

According to the investigation, the convicted person corresponded with a customer who promised him one hundred thousand rubles “in the event of the complete destruction of the building.” In order to receive a reward, it was necessary to provide a video recording of the destruction of the object.

The convicted person admitted his guilt. The court sentenced him to seven years of imprisonment: he will spend the first two years in prison, the rest – in a colony of strict regime.

• After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, military enlistment offices, police departments, city administration buildings, and “United Russia” receptions began to be set on fire all over Russia. After the announcement of mobilization, the number of such attacks increased many times. At the moment, it is known about almost a hundred requests for arson.
• As a result of the fires, no one was killed or injured. Most of the cases were considered under criminal articles of damage to other people’s property and hooliganism. The first sentence, in which the arson of the military enlistment office was qualified as a terrorist act, was handed down at the end of January 2023.