The Russians convicted two residents of Tokmak in a fabricated case of a “terrorist attack”

A Russian court sentenced two residents of the temporarily occupied part of the Zaporizhzhia region to long terms of imprisonment. The Ukrainians were accused of participating in a “terrorist community” and allegedly preparing to blow up a railway track.

The Russian security services reported the verdict. According to their version, one of the convicts, born in 2001, was allegedly recruited by Ukrainian special services in 2022, and later involved his peer in their activities.

The occupation side claims that the men allegedly planned to blow up a railway track near the village of Trudove in the Tokmat district. To do this, according to the Russian special services, they allegedly prepared two anti-tank mines and waited for the railway train to pass.

Based on these charges, the occupation court sentenced one of them to 20 years in prison, the other to 15 years in prison, with the sentence to be served in a strict regime colony.

The Russian authorities regularly use accusations of “terrorism”, “sabotage” and “collaboration with Ukrainian special services” to criminally prosecute residents of the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. In Mariupol, Russian security forces sentenced a 20-year-old Ukrainian woman to 13 years in prison.