The Second Western District Military Court sentenced a young man to 13 years in prison for throwing a Molotov cocktail into the military enlistment office in Lukhovitsy near Moscow. It is reported by RIA Novosti.
“Based on the totality of crimes, to finally appoint Butylin Kirill Vladimirovich 13 years in prison,” the presiding judge announced the decision. He will spend the first three years in prison, and the next ten in a strict regime colony.
It is not yet clear whether the defense will appeal the court’s decision. Butylin himself told reporters that he did not plan to do this, while his lawyer, on the contrary, said the opposite, calling the sentence “excessively harsh.”
The case was heard by a panel of three judges and was considered in two sessions.
Butylin himself fully admitted his guilt. The state prosecutor requested just 13 years in prison, while asking to take into account the positive characteristics of the defendant.
The defense asked that the case be reclassified as an attempted murder, and that the punishment be imposed “the minimum possible.” Butylin supported his defender in the last word, but was brief and did not add anything more.
As the investigation found out, on February 28, 2022, Kirill Butylin broke the window of the building of the joint military registration and enlistment office of Lukhovitsy and Zaraysk, located in Lukhovitsy, and threw a Molotov cocktail there, and painted the flag of Ukraine on the gate.
It was possible to detain him already in Belarus while trying to escape, on the border with Lithuania. He is charged with three articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation – on a terrorist attack, vandalism and public calls for terrorism, which involve up to 20 years in prison.
Butylin himself fully admitted his guilt in court, and his mother compensated the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation for damage from arson – 193.6 thousand rubles. As a representative of the military department noted in court, Butylin’s motive was “political hatred against the NVO”, which resulted in “the intention to desecrate the buildings of the military commissariat.”
Source: Rosbalt
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