The teenager from the Krasnodar region received a sentence under the terrorist article.

The military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced an 18-year-old native of Kuban to a term in a colony, recognizing him as a participant in a terrorist organization.

The case was investigated by employees of the FSB department for the Krasnodar region. The article charged against the young man for participating in the activities of a terrorist organization (part 2 of article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) provides for up to 20 years of imprisonment.

According to the prosecution and the court, from March to June 2025, the young man corresponded with people “connected” to the terrorist organization. He filled out an application to join this organization and then began to carry out tasks in the territory of Kuban from some curator from the Ukrainian special services, the Krasnodar region prosecutor's office reported on its Telegram channel.

“In [his] mobile phone, an application with personal data, correspondence, photographs with the organization's symbols, as well as information about completed tasks were found,” the message states.

The agency does not specify the name of the terrorist organization and does not disclose the nature of the tasks that the accused performed. The prosecutor's release does not contain information that the actions of the teenager went beyond correspondence and posed any real threat.

The court sentenced the young man to five years in a general regime colony and confiscated his mobile phone for state revenue. Whether the defendant agreed with the charges is not specified by the prosecutor's office. The “Caucasian Knot” currently does not have comments from the accused or his lawyer regarding the verdict.

“Caucasian Knot” also reported that the court arrested activist “EcoWatch of the North Caucasus” Denis Matveev due to correspondence in support of Ukraine; he had previously been searched. A criminal case has been initiated against 43-year-old Matveev for organizing or participating in the activities of a terrorist organization, sources reported. The FSB later stated that the activist, at the request of a “curator,” “was preparing and disseminating articles of an anti-Russian nature” online.

On October 7, the FSB reported the detention of a 34-year-old resident of the Beloglinskiy district. He is accused of attempting to join a terrorist organization by preparing “anti-Russian articles.”