Overview
- The Tomsk Regional Court issued an eight-years-and-six-months sentence, to be served first in a juvenile colony and then in a strict-regime penal colony, and the verdict has not yet entered into force.
- The defendant was found guilty under Articles 275 (state treason), 281 (sabotage) and 281.1 (assistance in sabotage) of the Russian Criminal Code.
- The regional FSB alleges he assisted Ukrainian services and carried out sabotage against communications infrastructure in Tomsk Oblast.
- Investigative Committee chief Alexander Bastrykin said 159 minors have been brought to criminal liability over three years and described varied profiles, including cases influenced by disinformation.
- Bastrykin endorsed the November 17, 2025 law that introduced harsher penalties up to life for recruiting minors into sabotage or terrorism and reduced criminal liability to 14 for several related offenses.