17-year-old native of Dagestan gets 8 years in prison for setting fire to military aircraft

The Chelyabinsk Regional Court sentenced a 17-year-old native of the Dagestani city of Buinaksk to eight years in a correctional colony.

According to the investigation, the young man set fire to a Su-34 fighter jet at the Shagol airbase in early January 2024. The FSB claims that he was carrying out an assignment from an unnamed customer, who promised him a reward of 4.5 million rubles. The teenager was given 25 thousand rubles for a train ticket to Chelyabinsk, where he bought five liters of gasoline and climbed through the gardens to the airbase. The guy was detained a day later.

On January 4, Ukrainian military intelligence posted a video of the burning plane.

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