The 2nd Western District Military Court, at a visiting session in Voronezh, sentenced residents of the Voronezh region Ilya Migachev and Sergei Kopylov to 8 and 9 years in prison in the case of attempted terrorist attack , damage and attempt to damage property. This was reported by Mediazona with reference to the press service of the court.

Migachev and Kopylov will spend the first two years of their sentence in prison, the remaining six and seven years in a maximum security colony. After their release from the colony, both were given an additional year and a half of restricted freedom.

According to security officials, at the end of September, Migachev and Kopylov planned to bombard a transformer substation in the village of Khrenovoe with Molotov cocktails in order to “destabilize the situation and cause significant property damage.” The Investigative Committee adds that the arson did not take place due to the intervention of FSB and Ministry of Internal Affairs officers.

Why set fire to transformer booths?

Partisans commit anti-war arson and other acts of railway resistance in order to stop Russian supplies of ammunition, equipment and military personnel to the territory of Ukraine for use in the war.
Read more about this method of anti-war resistance in the DOXA material .

A military court in Voronezh sentenced two men to eight and nine years in prison for attempting to set fire to a transformer booth