In St. Petersburg, a young man was detained after setting fire to a military recruitment center

A young man has been detained after setting fire to a military recruitment center in St. Petersburg. This was reported by TASS on December 17, citing a source in law enforcement agencies.

"The police department was contacted by a woman who reported that a young man threw a bottle with a flammable mixture at the door of the military commissariat in the house 53 on Tchaikovsky Street. The fire was extinguished, the police officers who arrived at the address detained and brought to the department the resident of Sestroretsk", - said the interlocutor of the agency.

It is specified that the detainee is 24 years old. He told law enforcement officers that he acted allegedly on the instructions of his handlers. The circumstances of the incident are being established.

Earlier, on November 14, a military court sentenced tower crane operator Sergei Andreev, accused of high treason and arson of a military recruitment center in Moscow, to 24 years in a penal colony. He will have to serve four years in prison and the remaining 20 years in a strict regime colony. He will also have to pay a fine of 1.2 million rubles.

Andreev was accused of illegal possession and trafficking of explosives and weapons, participation in a terrorist community, committing terrorist acts and state treason on November 12. According to the investigation, in the period from August 9 to September 30, 2023, through the messenger Telegram Andreev received instructions on how to create a homemade incendiary device at home. The attacker was detained on November 3, 2023.