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Russian Gets 12 Years For Throwing Molotov Cocktails At Conscription Center


A Russian conscript leaves a military conscription office in Novosibirsk in April 2022.
A Russian conscript leaves a military conscription office in Novosibirsk in April 2022.

A court in the Russian Urals city of Yekaterinburg has sentenced a man to 12 years in prison for throwing Molotov cocktails at a military conscription center in the Siberian autonomous district of Khanty-Mansi. The Central Military District Court identified the man as Vladislav Borisenko. It is the first time an arson attack against a military conscription center was classified as a terrorist act. There have been dozens of such attacks since Russia launched its ongoing invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Russian Service, click here.

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