Khabarovsk man faces up to 2 years in prison for illegal tree cutting

A resident of the Khabarovsk Territory faces up to two years in prison for illegally felling trees. The damage from his actions was estimated at 40 thousand rubles.

According to IA AmurMedia, in December 2025, a representative of the forestry department contacted the police with a complaint about illegal logging. During the operational search measures, it was possible to establish the involvement of a 49-year-old resident of the village of Voronezhskoye in this crime.

The man was detained. He admitted his guilt. The police seized a chainsaw, an axe and sawn trees.

According to the man, he went into the forest and cut down trees for personal needs, believing that they would not find out about it. The man compensated for the material damage caused.

A criminal case has been opened into the incident under the article "Illegal logging of forest plantations." The maximum penalty under this article is imprisonment for up to two years.

Earlier it was reported that in the three quarters of 2025, the volume of illegal logging amounted to 222.8 thousand cubic meters, for the same period last year — 313.4 thousand. This was told by Alexey Abramov, Head of the Department for Supervision and Use of forests for timber harvesting at the Federal Forestry Agency. Since the beginning of the year, 4,6 thousand facts of illegal logging have been revealed in the country. During the same period of 2024, 5,700 such offenses were recorded.

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