MOSCOW. March 15 (Interfax) - The Second Western District Military Court has sentenced Kirill Butylin, a mechanic at the Lukhovitsy Aviation Plant, to 13 years in a penal colony for setting fire to a military enlistment office in the Moscow region, an Interfax correspondent reported.
"Butylin is finally sentenced to 13 years' imprisonment with the restriction of freedom for one year," the court panel said in its verdict, which was pronounced on Wednesday.
The convict will serve his sentence for three years in prison, while the remaining ten years in a high-security penal colony.
Butylin is also banned from administering Internet resources for two years under the verdict.
Butylin was found guilty of perpetrating a terrorist attack, public calls for terrorist activity and vandalism.
During the pleadings, the state prosecutor sought to sentence Butylin to 13 years in prison with 11 years in a high-security penal colony and two years in jail. The defense team asked not to hand down a harsh sentence.
The investigators found that on February 28, 2022, Butylin, 22, drew the Ukrainian flag and a pacifist slogan on the gates of the military enlistment office of the towns of Lukhovitsy and Zaraisk, climbed over the fence, poured aviation kerosene on the wall of the building, broke the windows with a crowbar and hurled two Molotov cocktail bottles, which crashed against the metal bars. As a result, a fire broke out on the exterior of the commissariat.
Butylin filmed his actions on camera. The defendant posted the video on Telegram.
According to the prosecutors' theory, Butylin, who had attended an unauthorized rally on Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow a few days before the crime, wanted to protest the launch of a Russian special military operation in Ukraine.
Last March, Butylin was detained on the border of Belarus and Lithuania, then was deported to Russia and placed in a pre-trial detention facility.
At the court session, Butylin fully confessed and repented of his crime. Before the sentence was pronounced, the mother of the defendant had paid the money under two lawsuits filed by the Defense Ministry for the recovery of damages totaling over 193,000 rubles.