Ukrainian Serezhenko was sentenced to 17 years for a terrorist attack in Kherson
The Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced the citizen of Ukraine Andrei Serezhenko to the 17 years of the colony for participating in a terrorist attack against the head of the Office of the Penitentiary Service (Usin) in the Kherson region of Yevgeny Sobolev. According to investigators, Serezhenko participated in the preparation of the explosion of the car of the head of the Usin. As a result, he received serious injuries. The defendant partially pleaded guilty.
The Southern District Military Court found the 42-year-old citizen of Ukraine Andrei Serezhenko guilty of the illegal transportation of the explosive device and in the act of international terrorism (paragraph “a” of part 3 of article 222.1; part 1 of article 361 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). He has been appointed 17 years in prison, the first two years of which he will spend in prison, and the rest in a colony of strict regime. The convicted person is also fined 300 thousand rubles.
As indicated in the case file (at the disposal of “Kommersant”), Andrei Serezhenko was born in the Kherson region in the village of Sadovo, has higher education, and is married. Before the detention, he lived in the city of Naked Pier.
According to investigators, in 2022, unidentified opponents of a special military operation decided to organize a terrorist attack, the victim of which was supposed to be one of the high-ranking officials.
They attracted two people who appear in the materials of the case by Serezhenko as B. and P. (the case in relation to the first was allocated into separate proceedings, the second was already died, his criminal prosecution was discontinued). The latter connected to the attack and Andrei Serezhenko.
On June 18, 2022, at about 7:30 in the morning in Kherson Serezhenko brought B., who captured a backpack with a home -made explosive device, in the square located between the steamed street and the avenue of Admiral Senyavin. B. got out of the car and instructed Serezhenko to leave and return to the square in an hour. The third accomplice, meanwhile, monitored the car of the head of the Usin in the Kherson region Evgeny Sobolev and transmitted the information to the direct performer.
The attacker attached an explosive device to the tree trunk in the square. When the Audi Q7 Evgenia Sobolev passed by, the bomb was brought into action, and an explosion occurred. As a result, Mr. Sobolev received severe injuries – he was diagnosed with fractures of the right tibia, right and left unholy bones. The explosive was also injured by the leg. Serezhenko, who found him, took the accomplice to his house and helped. On June 21, 2022, B. left the territory of the Kherson region. A few weeks after that, Serezhenko was detained by law enforcement officers.
In court, Andrei Serezhenko did not plead guilty to the transportation of an explosive device, and partially recognized in the commission of an act of international terrorism.
The defendant insisted: he did not know that the subject in the backpack B. was an explosive device. He also claimed that he agreed to participate in the undermining of the head of the Usin in the Kherson region due to fear of physical reprisals against his relatives by B.
At the investigation stage, Andrei Serezhenko said that he met B. in March 2022, together they periodically discussed the actions of compatriots who crossed the side of Russia, calling them traitors. In June 2022, Serezhenko was looking for a way to leave Kherson to the territory controlled by Ukraine, and B. promised him to help him in exchange for participation in the terrorist attack against Evgeny Sobolev.
From the testimony of witnesses it follows that B. was a former police officer of Ukraine and acted on the instructions of its special services.
