Four defendants in the case of terrorist acts in the Zaporizhzhia region were convicted in Rostov-on-Don.

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The Southern District Military Court sentenced two citizens of Ukraine and two citizens of Russia, finding them guilty of committing terrorist acts against officials and law enforcement officers in the Zaporizhzhia region. One was sentenced to life imprisonment, three were sentenced to 25 years.

According to the investigation, in November 2022 and April 2023, Ukrainian citizens Igor Haranin and Sergey Yevtushenko, as well as Russian citizens Elena Roy and Sergey Harkusha organized terrorist acts against an official of the military-civilian administration of Melitopol and a high-ranking police officer of Melitopol.

The first sustained injuries of varying severity, the second died. They used homemade explosive devices for the terrorist acts. In May 2023, during an attempt to kill the deputy head of the police for operational work of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Zaporizhzhia region, all defendants were detained, reports Interfax on October 17.

The case was submitted to the court in November 204. Depending on their role in the commission of the crime, the defendants were charged with paragraph "b" of part 3 of article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (committing a terrorist act by an organized group, resulting in significant property damage, as well as death), part 2 of article 205.4 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (participation in a terrorist community), part 4 of article 222.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (illegal trafficking in explosives by an organized group), part 3 of article 223.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (illegal manufacture of explosives by an organized group).

All four were found guilty by the court. 38-year-old Igor Haranin received a life sentence with a fine of one million rubles, 58-year-old Sergey Yevtushenko, 46-year-old Elena Roy, and 54-year-old Sergey Harkusha were sentenced to 25 years in a penal colony, with the latter also receiving fines of 500 thousand and one million rubles respectively. Haranin will serve his sentence in a high-security penal colony, while Yevtushenko and Harkusha will serve in a strict regime penal colony.

Earlier, "Caucasian Knot" reported that at the end of September, the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced four residents of Melitopol to terms ranging from 17 to 28 years, finding them guilty of preparing terrorist acts against local officials.

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