Final month, Russia jailed a person for 10 years for planning to battle on Ukraine facet. (Representational)
Moscow:
Russia on Thursday jailed a barman for 25 years for becoming a member of a unit of Russians preventing for Ukraine and finishing up sabotage of railway gear.
Russia has reported quite a few incidents of sabotage because the begin of its “particular army operation” in Ukraine in 2022, lots of them concentrating on railways, and courts have handed harsh sentences to these linked to pro-Ukrainian armed teams.
A Moscow army court docket discovered 36-year-old Vladimir Malina, who labored at a restaurant within the Moscow area, responsible of treason and varied terror and sabotage expenses together with collaborating in a terror organisation.
Malina set fireplace to a railway relay field final yr after becoming a member of the Freedom of Russia Legion, a gaggle of fighters who declare to have participated in daring cross-border raids into Ukraine, prosecutors mentioned in a press release.
They mentioned a handler from the Legion gave orders to Malina and in April final yr he set fireplace to gear that managed a railway degree crossing within the Moscow area.
He later tried to set fireplace to a number of different relay cupboards and a police station earlier than being detained later that yr, prosecutors mentioned.
At an earlier court docket listening to, Malina partially admitted guilt however denied treason, TASS information company reported.
Earlier Thursday, Russian media reported {that a} pupil who agreed to publish leaflets concerning the Legion had been sentenced to 13 years in jail.
Final month, Russia jailed a person for 10 years for planning to battle on the facet of Ukraine.
Russia has reported virtually 200 acts of sabotage on its rail community because it despatched troops into Ukraine two years in the past, blaming most of them on Kyiv and its supporters.
Ukraine denies accountability for finishing up sabotage or supporting partisan teams inside Russia.
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