A resident of Millerovo received a sentence for assisting in the bombing of a military vehicle.

The military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced resident Valery Slyusary of the Rostov region to a long prison term for aiding in the organization of a terrorist act. Before the case was initiated, he underwent "carousel" arrests.

Slyusary was charged with aiding in the commission of a terrorist act by an organized group (part 3 of article 205.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). This article provides for a prison term of 10 to 20 years.

According to the prosecution's version, on the evening of June 13, 2024, Slyusary agreed for a fee to help an acquaintance prepare for an explosion. Together with a group of accomplices, he arrived at a parking lot in Millerovo, where the accomplices installed an explosive device under a military officer's car. Slyusary was monitoring the situation at that time.

On June 14, the device detonated: the military officer, who was in the car with his daughter, sustained moderate injuries, and the car burned, the press service of the Southern District Military Court reported on July 2.

Valery Slyusary was sentenced to 18 years and six months in a strict regime colony, with the first three years to be spent in prison. The court's press service did not specify whether he agreed with the charges. The "Caucasian Knot" currently has no comments from the convicted person or his lawyer regarding the verdict and plans to appeal.

Despite the sentence under the terrorist article, Valery Slyusary is not listed in the register of terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring as of 0:35 Moscow time today. According to human rights defenders, Slyusary is 21 years old - he was born on June 3, 2005, raised in an orphanage, was adopted at the age of five, and has a previous conviction for theft.

Before being charged with aiding a terrorist act, Slyusary underwent a series of administrative arrests: from June 19, 2024, he was arrested three times in succession for 10 and 15 days for disobeying police and petty hooliganism. Only on July 31, 2024, the Millerovo District Court of the Rostov region arrested him in a criminal case; by that time, Slyusary had already spent 35 days in custody, as indicated on the website of the human rights project Enbv.org.

"Carousel arrests" refer to a series of consecutive administrative punishments that usually precede the initiation of a criminal case. Such arrests under administrative articles give law enforcement time to exert pressure on a person deprived of freedom in this way, allowing them to fabricate materials for criminal prosecution.

"The Caucasian Knot" reported that in 2024, Colonel Igor Lominoga of the Ukrainian Emergency Situations Ministry underwent "carousel arrests" in two regions of southern Russia: on May 17, the Neklinovsky District Court of the Rostov region arrested him for eight days under the article for disobeying police, and on June 6, he was arrested by the Kushchevsky District Court of Kuban for 15 days under the same article. On June 20, Lominoga received another 15 days for disobeying police, but in another district of Kuban, in the village of Leningradskaya. On March 19, the court sentenced him to 14 years in a strict regime for treason.