Russian court hands 25 years to arson plotter accused of Ukraine links
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Lawyers for Ilya Baburin say there is no evidence of his involvement in the crimes in Siberia in 2022.
A court in Russia has sentenced a man to 25 years in jail for plotting an arson attack against a military recruitment office.
Ilya Baburin, 24, was sentenced by a court in Novosibirsk on Monday, on charges including treason. Prosecutors had claimed that he had plotted to burn down the recruitment office in Siberia on instruction from Ukraine in 2022, the year Moscow launched its invasion of its neighbour.
The prosecutors claimed that the attack, which did not happen, was being planned at the behest of an unidentified person from Ukraine. They accused Baburin of seeking to help the Azov battalion, a branch of the Ukrainian military branded a terror organisation in Russia.
Russia saw a wave of arson attacks on army offices after the Kremlin announced an unpopular military mobilisation drive in September 2022, the month Baburin was arrested.
The court also found him guilty of setting fire to a local music school, which it categorised as a terrorist act.
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