Vladivostok
On November 16, a colonel, Vadim Boiko, who worked with the mobilized, was found shot dead in his own office.
Eyewitnesses heard five shots. The first one to run into the office was the duty officer, who saw the body of the colonel with gunshot wounds to the chest. Forensics found five casings and four Makarov pistols. No suicide note was found.
Colonel Vadim Boyko was deputy head of the Pacific Higher Naval School, head of the technical support department.
Rostov-on-Don
November 17. During one night, an unknown guerrilla attacker damaged eight police cars in the Zheleznozhozhny district. All cars had their windows broken.
Novosibirsk
On 18 November in Novosibirsk anarchists destroyed an outdoor surveillance camera.
Moscow
On November 21 a warehouse of Ministry of Internal Affairs burst into flames at Moscow-Leningradskaya station. The warehouse was 10 meters away from the building of MIA. When the fire began to spread, the employees themselves fled, but there was enormous material damage: dozens of printers and scanners, 50 chairs, 20 armchairs, 10 tables and two air conditioners (and also a whole sports simulator and a bunch of gloves with masks) were burned. A criminal case has been opened.
Grozny
On November 21 a daredevil attacked a police inspector with a knife while he was performing prayers. The partisan attacked him from behind while the servant of the regime was ablution and stabbed him to Allah.
The assailant thus seized the policeman’s service weapon, but was unable to use it because he was shot dead by the killer’s colleagues. The murder of the assailant was reported by Ramzan Kadyrov himself. It is reported that the identity of the assailant has not been established, and that he most probably acted alone.
This is not the first attack on police officers in Grozny. Specifically, on December 28, 2020, two policemen were attacked by indviduals in the center of the city, armed with knives and tried to seize their weapons. As a result of the attack, one policeman died and another was wounded and hospitalized. Both attackers were killed.
On December 17, 2020. The Investigative Committee opened another criminal case over an attack on police officers in the Kurchaloysky district of Chechnya. According to preliminary data of the investigation, the attack happened around 1 a.m. on December 17 after two men in a VAZ-2114 car refused to stop on demand of policemen. During the pursuit the intruders opened fire at the policemen with an assault rifle, they were killed in return fire.
Reprisals
Irkutsk
A rail partisan was detained in Irkutsk. It is reported that he had previously wrapped copper wire around the rails, intending to cause a disruption in train traffic. He had also attached sheets from a school notebook with a message of “extremist content” to the tracks. Apparently, that’s how they found him. The guerrilla turned out to be 18-year-old Ilya Podkamenny, working at Subway. He faces up to four years in prison for “public calls to extremist activity.
Krasnobsk
As early as September 30 unknown guerrillas set fire to a propaganda banner in Krasnobsk, Novosibirsk region. Two weeks later unidentified masked men picked up 22-year-old Dmitry Karimov on his way to college, pushed him into a car and drove him into the woods. There, they beat him with a stun gun and threatened to “shoot him according to wartime laws” if he did not confess to setting the banner on fire. After this “conversation”, the student was found to have bruises, abrasions, and burns. Under the pressure of threats, the young man confessed to this and other arsons in August and September. A criminal case was opened against Karimov based on this “testimony. The young man has a group 3 disability due to hearing loss, and has had impaired central nervous system functions since childhood.
Krasnodar
The investigation in Krasnodar brought charges of terrorism against Oleg Vazhdaev, a partisan who on the night of September 25 tried to set on fire, with two Molotov cocktails, the military registration and enlistment office on Yana Poluyan Street. Earlier the arson was qualified as premeditated destruction of property (167 CC), but today in the closed court on demand of the FSB the people’s hero was reclassified to “terrorist attack” (Part 1 Article 205 of the CC). The court also extended Vazhdaev’s detention in the investigative isolator.
The guerrilla fighter himself does not deny that he tried to set fire to the military enlistment office: he wanted to save his relatives and friends from mobilization. Alas, one of the bottles he threw burst into flames in front of the building and the other did not break at all. The man was frightened away by a Cossack patrol, and on 29 September Vazhdayev was detained and subsequently arrested.
The case of Ruslan Zinin
Judge of the Kirovsky District Court of Ust-Ilimsk Maria Savkina extended the term of custody of Ruslan Zinin until February 26.
Ruslan and his defender Roman Razvozzhayev applied for a change of restraint to house arrest.
Ruslan is accused under Article 317 of the Criminal Code – “Encroachment on the life of a law enforcement officer”. We consider this accusation unfounded, since the article can apply to servicemen, but only when they are engaged in the protection of public order. The military commander in this case was obviously engaged in quite a different matter.
Under Article 317, Ruslan faces 12 to 20 years or life imprisonment.
It is worth noting that the wounded military commander Yeliseyev survived.
From Ruslan Zinin’s letter:
“On that day <September 26> I did go to the military enlistment office with the certainty that it was in my power to prevent my younger brother from being mobilized by the summons assigned to him the day before on the same day. I was also, up to the last moment, absolutely sure that I would not do any harm to anyone. I have been categorically against violence since I was a small boy. <…>
I also admit that I still have nightmares about seeing the posthumous photo of my school mate, an 18-year-old conscript who was drafted in November 2021 and killed in March ’22, the first days of the invasion. Imagining for a moment that I would ever, God forbid, have to see my own family man like that, I realized that I could not go on living, knowing that I had done nothing to prevent this and was ready to throw myself under a tank with my bare hands for any of my brothers. I have three of them. Just not to see the grief and tears of my relatives. <…>
The summons came for the youngest of them, who had just recently returned from the army. I knew that he was a military driver, like myself by profession, and I knew for sure that military drivers were suicide bombers, so I wasted no time in thinking, seeing my grandmother meet me at home in tears, with the words that my brother was leaving for the war tomorrow… My protest was firmly rejected by my family, saying that the alternative was prison, they were intimidated. Then I realized that I could only count on myself.”
Before the shot was fired, Zinin addressed the mobilized: “Now let’s all go home.”
Source: a2day