A court in Omsk, Russia, arrested two 16-year-old schoolboys who are suspected of setting fire to a Mi-8 military helicopter for a reward from alleged Ukrainian curators.
Source: Radio Svoboda
Details: The publication notes that the Omsk court arrested two 16-year-old schoolboys who are suspected of setting fire to a Mi-8 military helicopter at the local air base.
Earlier, Russian anonymous Telegram channels reported that teenagers who introduced themselves as Roma and Anton were detained in the city. It is claimed that on the evening of 21 September, they broke into the local airbase, where they threw a bottle with an incendiary mixture at a Mi-8 helicopter.
During the detention, the schoolchildren said that they received tasks via Telegram from alleged Ukrainian curators who promised $20,000 for arson, but then disappeared and deleted the correspondence.
A similar incident occurred on 11 September in the city of Noyabrsk, where two schoolchildren aged 13 and 14 set fire to a Mi-8 helicopter of the Utair airline, also allegedly on a mission for which they were promised five million rubles. In both cases, teenagers were detained, and criminal cases were opened on suspicion of terrorism.
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