The regional Prosecutor’s Office has already registered the case with the court. According to investigators, in April 2024, a 19-year-old man “started correspondence with an anonymous messenger user acting in the interests of an unfriendly foreign state in order to earn money.”
The young man was asked to set fire to the base stations of mobile operators, and he invited two of his acquaintances to participate in the crime.
According to the prosecutor’s office, the defendants were paid 65,000 rubles for three arson attacks in Kaluga.
The young men were charged under the article “terrorist act” (Part 2 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and detained. Each faces up to 20 years in prison, according to the prosecutor’s office. It is not reported when they were detained.
Last May, the Kaluga media wrote about the fire at the cell tower.
On June 4, 2024, ASTRA reported that two people were detained in the Kaluga Region due to the arson of a Megafon cellular communications tower.
According to ASTRA, at that time, the FSB opened a case of a “terrorist act” (Part 2 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code) against two young men from the Kaluga region: 18-year-old Radislav Kudenkov and 15-year-old Artyom [his name has been changed].
The security forces claimed that the young men set fire to the tower early in the morning on May 30. It was also reported that they acted together with other unidentified persons. 18-year-old Radislav was then sent to an isolation ward, his 15-year-old friend was released on his own recognizance. On June 10 last year, Radislav Kudenkov was added to the list of “terrorists and activists”.
