Two residents of Kuban have been charged with sabotage and treason.

The Krasnodar Regional Court will hear the case of two residents of the Anapa District accused of four arson attacks on the railroad.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," in the southern regions of Russia, since the start of the military operation in Ukraine, there have been repeated arson attacks on railroad and cellular communication equipment. Investigators are classifying these incidents as sabotage and terrorist attacks. On January 26, Arsanali Mutukov was sentenced to 12 years in prison in the Krasnodar Territory after pleading guilty to setting fire to two equipment cabinets on the railroad.

A criminal case against two residents of the Anapa district has been transferred to the Krasnodar Regional Court. They are accused of sabotage, treason, and money laundering. One of the defendants is 24 years old, and the other is 26.

The case was investigated by FSB officers. According to security officials, the two acquaintances worked together on assignments for a "representative of the Ukrainian special operations forces."

From April 29 to September 30, 2024, they set fire to certain "transport infrastructure facilities" between the Anapa and Gostagaevskaya railway stations, as well as a relay cabinet of a signaling installation in the village of Gorny in the Novorossiysk district, the Kuban Prosecutor's Office reported on its Telegram channel on January 29.

The charge of money laundering 2 is related to the fact that the young people received cryptocurrency rewards for the arson, which they converted into rubles and withdrew to their bank cards, the department noted. The prosecutor's office did not specify the amounts of the rewards.

The names of the accused were not mentioned in the prosecutor's office's statement, and the case file on the Krasnodar Regional Court's website was unavailable as of 12:43 a.m. Moscow time today. Caucasian Knot has not yet received any comments from the defendants or their lawyers regarding the prosecution's case.

Caucasian Knot also reported that at the end of December, the Krasnodar Regional Court found four Kuban residents—Semyon Shipulin, Arman Ayrapetyan, Daniil Yevseyev, and Maxim Yaglov—guilty of committing group sabotage on the railway, sentencing them to terms ranging from 13 to 15 years in a maximum-security penal colony.