17:58, 5 August 2025

The court refused to mitigate the sentence of Krasnodar resident Eduard Gladkikh

The Court of Appeal upheld the sentence of Eduard Gladkikh, a resident of the Krasnodar Territory, who was sentenced to 16 years for arson on the railway and an attempt to blow up a gas station in Krasnodar.

As "Kavkazsky Uzel" wrote, in early February, a military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Krasnodar resident Eduard Gladkikh to 16 years in prison, finding him guilty of setting fire to railway infrastructure and preparing a terrorist attack at a gas station.

According to the investigation and the court, Gladkikh, during a "correspondence with an unidentified person" in October 2023, agreed to set fire to an electric heating control cabinet installed on the railway for a fee. He doused the cabinet with gasoline and set it on fire, the contents were completely destroyed. On December 15 of the same year, he set fire to a metal cabinet of a stationary track lubrication machine, which was also destroyed. Also, during correspondence "with another unidentified person," he agreed to commit an explosion at one of the gas stations in Krasnodar and received the coordinates of a cache with a homemade explosive device, but was unable to carry out the explosion, since security forces replaced the bomb with a dummy, and then detained the suspect.

The appellate court upheld Eduard Gladkikh's 16-year sentence. "Gladkikh's sentence was upheld by the appeal," TASS quotes the court representative as saying.

In addition to 16 years of imprisonment in a maximum security penal colony, Eduard Gladkikh was sentenced to a fine of 300 thousand rubles.

Gladkikh was found guilty under articles on a terrorist act and an attempted terrorist act, as well as an attempt to illegally acquire weapons. In addition, the court found him guilty of illegal possession of drugs, notes "RBK Krasnodar".

The versions of the investigation and the court about the motives for setting fire to relay cabinets in Kuban look unconvincing, and such cases often have signs of falsification, human rights activists stated, commenting on the sentence of Mironichev. The relay cabinet is an important part of the infrastructure, so the motive of sabotage is not excluded, the former employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs objected.

"Caucasian Knot" also wrote that 19-year-old Krasnodar resident Ilya Mironichev, detained in May 2023 while setting fire to a relay cabinet on the railway, was sentenced to eleven and a half years in prison.

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