The central district court of Russia’s Volgograd has arrested Denis Serdiuk, a 30-year-old local resident accused of arson after he set fire to a local enlistment office, until 15 July, the court’s press service reports.
Serdiuk is accused of hooliganism and arson motivated by hooliganism. According to the prosecution, on 15 May, Serdiuk lit up “improvised incendiary devices” and threw them through the window to the military commissariat office, which caused a fire.
According to Mediazona, there have been at least 13 cases of arson at Russian conscription offices since the start of the war in Ukraine. Over the past two months, arson attempts were recorded in Cherepovets, Nizhnevartovsk, Balashikha (a city in the Moscow region) and other cities. Two young men suspected of throwing Molotov cocktails at a conscription office in Nizhnevartovsk on 4 May were arrested earlier by a local court.
A court in Yekaterinburg earlier arrested a man suspected of setting fire to a military commissariat building. He was arrested until at least 11 May.
In Cherepovets, local police officers detained two 16-year-olds who attempted to throw Molotov cocktails at an enlistment office. The suspects were identified with the aid of the city’s video surveillance system.
