In Russia, the court for the first time qualified the arson of the military enlistment office as a terrorist attack

For the first time in Russia, a court handed down a conviction under the article on a terrorist attack for burning down a military registration and enlistment office. According to the TASS agency, the defendant from the Khanty-Mansiysk district was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
TASS does not name the convict. Apparently we are talking about Vladislav Borisenko. The verdict was issued by the military court of the Central District of Yekaterinburg, this is indicated in the case file.
Borisenko is a resident of Nizhnevartovsk. He was accused of the fact that together with Vasily Gavrilishen, in May last year, he tried to burn down the military enlistment office in this city. A bottle containing a combustible mixture went out; The fire was quickly extinguished by the police who came to the call, no injuries were reported.
Both were initially charged with willful destruction or damage to property and hooliganism, but the case was later reclassified as a terrorist attack and transferred to a military tribunal. Under the terrorist attack article, the accused can face up to 20 years in prison. At the same time, Borisenko and Gavrilishen are tried separately.
In court, the defendants allegedly said that they set fire to the military registration and enlistment office in an attempt to make money – some people in the telegram had promised them more than a million rubles – and were not agree that it was a terrorist attack. Vladislav Borisenko’s lawyer, Sergei Chernyshkov, according to Kommersant, said his client would in fact support the war against Ukraine.
In the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Ukraine , dozens of military enlistment offices and other government offices were burnt down in Russia – fires are usually quickly extinguished and only limited damage was done to buildings. Several people have been convicted under articles of hooliganism or damage to property, but since the fall, the investigating authorities will reclassify such cases as a much more serious article concerning a terrorist attack.