The court sentenced a foreigner to 23 years for preparing terrorist attacks in Stavropol

The Southern District Military Court sentenced a 38-year-old foreign national. He was found guilty of participating in a terrorist organization, preparing for a terrorist attack, espionage and assisting the enemy.

According to the court, in January 2025, a man with radical views joined a terrorist organization banned in Russia. In February, he conducted reconnaissance of buildings of military, administrative and industrial facilities in Stavropol, where the terrorist attack was planned, and passed information to curators.

Then, on their assignment, he purchased components and made homemade incendiary devices. He kept them in a rented apartment and informed the accomplice which objects were chosen for the attack: the administration of Stavropol and the October district, the Stavropol City Duma and the regional Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection.

The activities of the attacker were stopped by employees of the FSB of Russia in the Stavropol Territory.

The court, taking into account the position of the state prosecutor, imposed a sentence of 23 years in prison. The first 5 years the convict will spend in prison, the rest of the term in a correctional colony of strict regime. The sentence has not yet entered into force.