A court in Russia has sentenced a man to 18 years in prison for "preparing an assassination attempt" on the occupying head of Crimea Sergey Aksyonov, UNN reports with reference to Krym.Realii.
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The convict allegedly gained skills in the use of explosive devices and in June 2023 in Simferopol took an explosive device from a cache to be installed in Aksyonov's car, Russian media reported, citing the Russian Prosecutor General's Office.
It is reported that the man will spend the first 4 years in prison, the rest - in a strict regime penal colony with a fine of 350 thousand Russian rubles.
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In July 2023, the Russian FSB announced that it had prevented an attempted assassination attempt on Aksyonov. At the time, Russian media reported that a Russian citizen born in 1988 had been detained. The FSB claimed that the man was "preparing for a terrorist attack" but did not have time to carry it out, as he was detained "while removing an explosive device from a cache.