In Belgorod, the first verdict since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine in the case of an attempted sabotage was passed. Local residents Alexander Turyansky and Georgy Zelenin each received three and a half years in a strict regime for plans to damage the railway, which is used by military trains. The convicts, who faced seven years in prison, cooperated with the investigation and pleaded guilty.
The Belgorod Regional Court found the residents of the regional center Alexander Turyansky and Georgy Zelenin guilty of attempted sabotage (part 1 of article 30 and part 1 of article 281 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and appointed them three and a half years in a strict regime colony. As Kommersant was told in the press service of the regional department of the FSB, the verdict entered into force.
Young people were detained in April last year. The court established that they planned to damage or completely destroy a section of the railway near the village of Tomarovka, Yakovlevsky District, before a train with military equipment and servicemen participating in a special military operation would pass through it.
The saboteurs expected that their actions would lead to derailment, damage to equipment and casualties among the personnel.
They planned to film the crime and distribute it on the Internet.
However, FSB operatives were able to prevent sabotage. After the arrest, Alexander Turyansky and Georgy Zelenin were taken into custody. During interrogations, they admitted that since the beginning of hostilities in Ukraine, they had taken an anti-Russian position and decided to destroy a section of the railway along which military trains were traveling. They planned to unscrew the screws on the tracks and loosen the fasteners and were looking for a way out to representatives of the law enforcement agencies of Ukraine, in particular to the Security Service of Ukraine, in order to coordinate their actions with them.
The criminal investigation ended at the end of last year. The process took eight meetings. As part of the judicial investigation, Alexander Turyansky and Georgy Zelenin, according to Kommersant, fully admitted their guilt. Judging by the file of cases, one of the defendants’ lawyers filed an appeal.
The criminal case of an attempt to destroy the railway near Belgorod was the first case of sabotage since the beginning of a special military operation.
Later, in July, three citizens of Ukraine were detained in Lipetsk, who lived there under the guise of refugees and planned to blow up the bus station.
In August, in the Kursk region, sabotage groups blew up power transmission towers three times. At the same time, an explosion at an ammunition depot at the Saki military airfield in Crimea was recognized as sabotage.
Since the beginning of the year, the FSB has reported the arrest of several people who planned or carried out acts of sabotage on the railway in the Penza and Sverdlovsk regions.
