Vyborg resident sentenced to 13 years for plan to set fire to enlistment office

The Second Western District Military Court has sentenced Vyborg resident Eldar Voskresensky to 13 years in prison for an attempted terrorist act (part 3, article 30 and paragraph A of part 2, article 205 of the Criminal Code). He was accused of the “attempted arson of a military enlistment office.”

According to the court’s, in June 2022, Voskresensky, “pursuing a selfish goal and possessing an antisocial personal attitude,” wanted to set fire to the administrative building of the Vyborg and Vyborg district of the Leningrad region military commissariat.

The organizer of the crime was Yuriy Zagurskikh, who allegedly “colluded with an unidentified person in Ukraine.” In February 2023, he was sentenced to 11 years in prison for “organizing a terrorist attack.”

Voskresensky’s partner was Yevgeny Lagoyda, who, in April, was sentenced to six years in prison on the same charges.

The court was told that Voskresensky and Lagoyda had come to the military enlistment office at night with a homemade incendiary device, which they wanted to “throw into the perimeter of the building.” “They could not carry out their plan, as they saw the guard, were afraid that they would be arrested, and fled the scene of the crime,” the verdict reads.

Voskresensky did not confess, but the court considered the charges proven.

According to Mediazona, by early April 2023, at least 94 arson attacks had been recorded in Russia since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, in 70 cases the targets were military recruitment centers and enlistment offices.