A second teenager has been arrested in Adygea in connection with a sabotage case.

A Maykop court has remanded another teenager, whom investigators believe was involved in the arson of cellular communications equipment.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," on March 16, the Maykop City Court remanded a minor accused of sabotage (Part 2 of Article 281 of the Russian Criminal Code, which carries a sentence of 12 to 20 years in prison) to pretrial detention until April 24.

A second teenager has been arrested in connection with the sabotage case, the joint press service of the courts of Adygea reported today on its Telegram channel.

"The Maykop City Court has chosen a preventive measure for the second minor accused of sabotage. After reviewing the case materials, the court granted the investigator's motion and ordered the second minor to be remanded in custody until April 24, 2026, inclusive," the publication stated.

As a reminder, since the outbreak of hostilities in Ukraine, arson attacks on railway equipment and mobile phone stations have repeatedly occurred in regions of southern Russia, including Adygea. Thus, in September 2025, the case of three young men, including two teenagers, accused of setting fire to a cell phone tower in the village of Tlyustenkhabl and a railway locomotive in Krasnodar, was filed in court.

Criminal arson cases often feature a typical framing: allegedly "unidentified persons" force people to film the arson and then send them to the "customer." This narrative in a large number of criminal cases suggests that investigators have found a simple way to prove the crimes, as Roman Melnichenko, a candidate of legal sciences, previously noted.

At the same time, the Kuban verdicts in sabotage cases have become a model for courts in other regions. In April, the appellate court doubled the sentences of teenagers from Novosibirsk in a railway sabotage case, bringing the final sentences in line with those handed down in Kuban for similar cases.

The teenagers sought a lenient sentence, and a prosecutor's office representative demanded that the sentences be equal to the average sentences handed down by courts in other regions for similar cases—11 years in prison. The teenagers' parents are convinced that the case is fabricated.