MOSCOW. Sept 25 (Interfax) - Russian citizen Ivan Nedilsky, who set fire to military enlistment offices and collected information for Ukrainian security services, has been sentenced to 25.5 years in a penal colony, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) department for Moscow and the Moscow region said.
"The sentence handed down by the Second Western District Military Court to Russian citizen Ivan Nedilsky, born in 1970, who on orders Ukrainian Security Service set fire to two administrative buildings in the Moscow region, collected information for a foreign security service, and desecrated military memorials, has taken legal effect," the department said.
The Second Western District Military Court initially found Nedilsky guilty and sentenced him to 26 years behind bars, but the Appellate Military Court later reduced the punishment to 25.5 years behind bars. The man was also fined 600,000 rubles.
According to the investigators, Nedilsky was recruited by a military counterintelligence employee of the Ukrainian Security Service in Greece in March 2022.
"On orders from his curator, the Russian citizen collected and transferred to the Ukrainian side information on transport and other infrastructure facilities in the Moscow and Smolensk regions to be used in preparing sabotage and terrorist acts, and also desecrated the Mourning Mother monument and the memorial honoring the liberation of the Smolensk region from the Nazis," it said.
He "was later tasked with setting fire to the buildings of military enlistment offices in the Moscow region," and "found and coordinated with his curator from of the Ukrainian Security Service a facility to commit a terrorist attack, a military enlistment office in Mozhaisk," it said. "At night on July 12, 2022, the attacker threw bottles with incendiary liquid into the window of the building, but no fire occurred for reasons beyond the perpetrator's control. The man later made another attempt to commit a terrorist attack, selecting and coordinating with the curator a building for arson where the military registration office of the Shakhovskaya city district's administration was located," it said.
Nedilsky "set fire to the windows of the building and threw bottles with incendiary liquid into the building," it said.
The convict was detained on September 16, 2022. "During the investigation, his actions were qualified by the department's investigative service as crimes under Article 275 of the Russian Criminal Code (high treason), Article 205 of the Russian Criminal Code (attempted terrorist attack), Article 205 of the Russian Criminal Code (terrorist attack), Article 205.4 of the Russian Criminal Code (involvement in a terrorist community), and Article 214 (vandalism)," it said.