The Bryansk Regional Court sentenced a 22-year-old resident of Bryansk to 15 years in prison, accused of setting fire to a relay cabinet on the railway, the court's press service reported.
According to the investigation, on February 25, 2024, he set fire to railway equipment on the eastern outskirts of Bryansk, and an underage acquaintance filmed it all on camera. For this, they received 45,000 rubles between them.
The accused admitted that he set fire to the relay cabinet for money — he was paid 40,000 rubles for this. In addition, coordinates of another relay cabinet, which he planned to set fire to a week later, were found on his phone.
The names are hidden on the court's website, but in March after the arrest, ASTRA* reported, citing sources, that the young man's name is Nikolai Evseenko, who returned from the war in Ukraine a few months before the arson. Evseenko was recruited in May 2023 from a colony where he was serving a sentence for theft and distribution of drug "stashes." His acquaintance, who was 16 at the time of the arson, was studying at the Bryansk Transport College. The young man was previously sentenced, receiving six years in a juvenile correctional facility on charges of "sabotage."
* Recognized as a "foreign agent" in Russia.