A Kuban resident has been arrested for allegedly planning an attack on security forces.
A 21-year-old resident of the Krasnodar Territory, accused of plotting a terrorist attack at the training facility of the Ministry of Internal Affairs University in Novorossiysk, has been taken into custody.
A terrorist attack on the training facility of the Krasnodar University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has been thwarted in Novorossiysk, the press service of the Kuban Directorate of the Federal Security Service (FSB) reported.
The accused is a 21-year-old local resident who, "under the influence of telephone scammers, transferred funds to a so-called safe account," after which he was "persuaded to commit illegal acts under the pretext of not being held criminally liable for financing the Ukrainian Armed Forces."
"For these purposes, the supervisor gave the perpetrator the coordinates of the locations of objects of interest at the training facility, instructed him on the specifics of infiltrating the facility, and preparing an incendiary mixture," TASS quotes the agency's statement.
According to security officials, the accused "followed all instructions to commit the terrorist attack." but was detained by FSB and Ministry of Internal Affairs officers. "No damage was caused to the educational facilities of the Krasnodar University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia," the department reported.
The detainee has been arrested by court order. "A criminal case has been opened and is being investigated for a crime under Part 1 of Article 30 - Subparagraph "c" of Part 2 of Article 205 of the Russian Criminal Code. He has been remanded in custody. The article with which he is charged carries a maximum penalty of imprisonment for up to 20 years," the statement reads.
As "Caucasian Knot" reported, since the outbreak of hostilities in Ukraine, arson attacks on railway equipment and mobile phone stations have repeatedly occurred in southern Russia. Criminal cases often feature a typical framing: allegedly "unidentified individuals" force people to film arson and then send the videos to the "customer." This narrative, found in a large number of criminal cases, suggests that investigators have found a simple way to prove crimes, noted legal scholar Roman Melnichenko. At the same time, Kuban's sabotage convictions have set a model for courts in other regions. Thus, in April 2025, the appellate court doubled the sentences of teenagers from Novosibirsk in a case of sabotage on a railway, so that the final sentences would be consistent with those handed down in Kuban for similar cases.
The teenagers sought a lenient sentence, and a prosecutor's office representative demanded that the sentences be equal to the average sentences handed down by courts in other regions for similar cases—11 years in prison. The teenagers' parents are convinced that the case is fabricated.