An artist from the Krasnodar region has been accused of setting fire to relay cabinets.

Lada Sendovskaya, a graduate of the Krasnodar Regional College of Culture, has been charged with committing two terrorist attacks after setting fire to railway relay cabinets.

"Caucasian Knot" wrote that in the southern regions of Russia, after the outbreak of large-scale military operations in Ukraine, there have been repeated arson attacks on military registration and enlistment offices and railway relay cabinets. A wave of such arson attacks, in particular, was recorded after the announcement of partial mobilization in Russia. On September 30, 2022, General Staff spokesman Vladimir Tsimlyansky stated that the arson attacks on military registration and enlistment offices will be classified as terrorist attacks; investigators also sometimes apply the article on sabotage to such cases.

24-year-old Lada Sendovskaya has been under arrest in the Krasnodar Territory since March on charges of committing two terrorist attacks by a group of individuals (Clause "a" of Part 2 of Article 205 of the Russian Criminal Code carries a sentence of twelve to twenty years in prison). The case was opened back in 2024, but Sendovskaya remained free until at least March 8 – she was arrested only in the late stages of the investigation, when she and her lawyer had only to review the case documents, according to Mediazona*.

Sendovskaya's defense attempted to appeal her detention, but the Krasnodar Regional Court upheld the arrest on April 6. The investigator justified the need to keep the girl in pretrial detention by citing the fact that she does not have an official permanent job or "stable family ties" and lives in a rented apartment.

As the publication discovered, Lada Sendovskaya set fire to relay cabinets in July 2024 "under the influence of fraudsters." In September of that year, her personal information was added to the Rosfinmonitoring Service's list of terrorists and extremists.

Sendovskaya graduated from the Krasnodar Regional College of Culture in 2022 with a degree in arts and crafts and folk crafts, and later worked as a teacher-organizer at the Children's Art School in the village of Ilsky. According to human rights activists, she lived in Novorossiysk. According to her social media page, she actively participated in various creative events held in the Krasnodar region, where she sold her handicrafts and paintings. Caucasian Knot also reported that in April, Daniil Panov, a native of the Salsky district, was sentenced to 13 years in a maximum-security prison for setting fire to relay cabinets in the Rostov region. At the end of April, a military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced long prison terms to Vladislav Matukhnenko, Anton Esauenko, and Evgeniya Kudryashova in the railroad arson case.

* are included in the Russian register of foreign agents.

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