The 2nd Western District Military Court in Moscow received criminal cases regarding preparations for arson of the military registration and enlistment office and the United Russia office against three residents of the Bryansk region. Information about this was published on the court’s website, Mediazona noted .
Nikolai Tikhomirov , Daniil Kopylenko and Maxim Shatoy are accused of preparing for a terrorist attack by a group of persons (clause “a” of Part 2 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code with the use of Part 1 of Article 30 of the Criminal Code), the last two are also charged with the article of extortion with the use of violence (clauses “a” and “c”, part 2 of article 163 of the Criminal Code). Mediazona noted that the cases of each of them will be considered on the merits by different judges. “This may mean that at least two of them, or all three, have entered into agreements to cooperate with the investigation,” the publication writes.
The initiation of a case against Tikhomirov, Kopylenko and Shatoy became known in February . They were charged with preparing to set fire to the United Russia office on Popov Street and the military registration and enlistment office on Lenin Street in the city of Unecha. The Baza Telegram channel wrote that young people began preparing for arson in the fall of 2022 - they made incendiary mixtures and prepared a change of clothes. Shatogo and Kopylenko were previously detained in the case of extortion, and Tikhomirov - only later, in the case of attempted arson.
- Since the beginning of the full-scale war with Ukraine, military registration and enlistment offices and administrative buildings have been set on fire in various Russian cities. After the announcement of the “partial” mobilization, such arson became more frequent—several dozen cases of arson of military registration and enlistment offices are known . Some of the criminal cases in connection with the arson of military registration and enlistment offices, as well as police departments, the FSB and administrative buildings are listed in our guide to the “anti-war case”. OVD-Info suggests that at least some of these actions were a response to military aggression from Russia.