Four students suspected of setting fire to transformers along railway lines were arrested in Ufa

The Sovetsky District Court of Ufa arrested for two months four students accused in the terrorist attack case (clause “a” of Part 2 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code). Kommersant was informed about this by the court’s press service.

The publication names their names: Farrukhjon Zokirov, Mustafa Shakhbazov, Emin Sadigov and Amin Sadigov. The first three are 18 years old, the last is 17 years old. According to the press service, the defendants tried at least five times to damage electrical equipment on the railway, speaking out against the war in Ukraine.

RBC, citing a source in law enforcement agencies , writes that the young men set fire to the sectioning post on the Chernikovka-Shaksha section and the control point for disconnecting the contact network on the Dema-Checkpost section. FSB officers detained two of them on October 27 while attempting to set fire to the Pravaya Belaya sectional post of the main passage of the Kuibyshev Railway.

Mash, without specifying a source , claims that the order to set fire to transformers to those arrested was given by an anonymous person on the Internet, and Zokirov persuaded his friends to participate in this due to financial difficulties.