OREANDA-NEWS  Three Russian citizens have been sentenced to 15 to 19 years in prison for arson and incitement to terrorism on the Internet. All of them were recruited by the special services of Ukraine through the messengers Telegram and Element, the Center for Public Relations of the FSB of Russia reported.

In Chelyabinsk, a teenager was sentenced to eight years for arson of military equipment.

In three regions of the Russian Federation, six people were detained for arson under the influence of fraudsters.
"The FSB, together with the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, suppressed the activities of residents of the Komi Republic, Sverdlovsk, and Kirov regions. Citizens of the Russian Federation Gennady Kalashnikov, born in 1980, Alexey Rozhkov, born in 1997, and Valery Shipichkin, born in 1996, who committed arson attacks on military installations and transport infrastructure and spread calls for terrorist and extremist crimes on the Internet.", - reported in the DSP.

They also recalled Ruslan Sidiki, an Italian and Russian citizen born in 1988, who was detained in the Ryazan region and involved in the bombing of a railway track in the Ryazan region, which led to the derailment of 19 freight wagons, and an attack by quadrocopters with explosives on the Diaghilev military airfield in Ryazan.

"It has been established that employees of the Ukrainian special services used Telegram and Element messengers to recruit and maintain contacts with their wards," the report says.