Those who tried to set fire to the military enlistment office in Vyborg received terms ranging from 6 to 13 years

The district military court sentenced three residents of the city of Vyborg in the Leningrad Region to six to 13 years in prison for attempting to set fire to the local military enlistment office. They were arrested last September.

According to TASS, the names of the convicted are Yevgeny Lagoida, Eldar Voskresensky and Yuriy Zagurskikh. They did not fulfill their plan, because, when they came to the military enlistment office, they saw the guard and left. Nevertheless, the court found Lagoida and Voskresensky guilty of attempted terrorist attack and sentenced them to six and 13 years in prison, respectively. Yury Zagurskikh was found guilty of organizing terrorist activities and received 11 years of imprisonment. They will have to spend the first three years in prison, the rest – in a high-security colony.

The court clarified that the cases of Lagoida and Zagurskih were considered separately, they pleaded guilty and entered into a pre-trial agreement. Voskresensky did not admit guilt and claimed that he had come to the military enlistment office to dissuade Lagoida from committing a crime.

In May, the court sentenced another resident of Vyborg to 11 years in prison. According to the FSB, he also tried to set fire to the same Vyborg military enlistment office.

• 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. At first, cases were considered under the criminal articles of damage to someone else’s property and hooliganism. Then the General Staff of the Russian Federation announced that cases of arson of military enlistment centers would be considered acts of terrorism and would be punishable by up to 15 years in prison. 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.