A resident of Kuban is accused of involvement with terrorists due to pro-Ukrainian graffiti.
The military court in Rostov-on-Don will consider the case of a young man from Krymsk, accused under two terrorism articles due to graffiti on walls and comments in a messenger.
The accused is 19 years old; at the time of the actions attributed to him in 2024, he was a minor. The young man is accused of participating in the activities of a terrorist organization (part 2 of article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation provides for imprisonment from ten to twenty years) and of publicly calling for terrorism on the internet (part 2 of article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, from five to seven years of imprisonment). The case was initiated based on operational materials from the regional FSB.
According to the investigation, the teenager began corresponding with an unknown "curator" in a messenger in 2024. In September, he painted on the facades of buildings in Krymsk, "inscriptions justifying the ideology of terrorism and calling for violent crimes," the regional Investigative Committee reported.
The Prosecutor's Office of Kuban, in turn, characterized these inscriptions simply as "pro-Ukrainian"; according to the agency, the accused performed graffiti with aerosol paint "to destabilize the activities and discredit the authorities of the Russian Federation."
The accusation of calls for terrorism is related to a comment in the chat of one of the messenger channels. According to the Investigative Committee, in his comments, the young man "encouraged actions related to violence and harm." In these comments, the young man positively assessed the activities of a certain terrorist organization and called on people to join it, the prosecutor's office claims.
Both agencies assert that for these actions, the teenager received six thousand rubles from the "curator." The name of the terrorist organization that offers such a reward is not mentioned in the reports. It is also not specified whether the young man agreed with the accusations.
According to the prosecutor's office, the accused also sent someone "a video recording and the coordinates of the base station," although this information is absent in the Investigative Committee's press release. After the arrest, the accused was placed in a pre-trial detention center, and to this day he remains in custody, investigators noted. The case has been transferred for consideration to the Southern District Military Court.
The name of the accused is not mentioned in the official reports of the agencies. "Caucasian Knot" has established that he may be Timofey Yeremin, a native of Krymsk: his lawyer Maria Murtazaeva appealed the extension of his detention in April, but the Krasnodar Regional Court rejected the appeal on April 22.
The appellate ruling indicates that the investigation also planned to charge Yeremin with a third criminal article, about treason (article 275 of the Criminal Code of Russia). The lawyer in her complaint indicated that Yeremin's detention "is a means of pressure on him," and that for some time the accused was in a psychiatric hospital.
Timofey Yeremin's data was entered into the register of terrorists and extremists by Rosfinmonitoring on April 19, indicates a Telegram bot tracking updates to the list. The young man turned 19 in February.