The prosecutor requested 14 years in a high-security colony and a fine of 400 thousand rubles for 60-year-old Andrey Yevseev from Moscow, accused under several articles, including preparation for a terrorist attack, reports TASS.
According to the investigation, in June 2024, Yevseev, who works as a driver-forwarder at a chemical reagents sales company LLC 'Mosreaktiv', got into a street fight with a passerby and came to the police to file a report. At that time, he was wearing a T-shirt with a trident and the inscription SLAVA UKRAINI, which was recognized as a demonstration of prohibited symbols, and he was sentenced to ten days of administrative arrest. In addition, Yevseev spoke about 'his pro-Ukrainian views' and that 'he keeps Ukrainian flags and other items at home'. After that, a search was conducted at his home.
During the search, the defendant did not hide anything, besides the flag, he pointed out and explained where his weapons were stored. "In the apartment, 14 quadcopters, remote controls, VR glasses, 'work pants with blue-yellow ribbons, four shots for an under-barrel grenade launcher, training cartridges, fragments of pyrotechnic crackers, bags of nitrate, bags with orange substance, cans with unknown substances, canisters with unknown liquid substances, a bottle of kerosene, several SIM cards, memory cards, three mobile phones, a pendant with a trident, two revolvers, a Makarov pistol and a magazine for it, 79 cartridges, a Lumix camera, and a metal machine' were found and seized," the case materials state. At his home, they also found drone footage of the south of Moscow — a CHP plant, schools, and the Buyanov hospital in Tsaritsyno, and one of the witnesses said that Yevseev wanted to modify traumatic weapons into combat weapons on his metal machine.
Initially, a case was initiated against the Muscovite for possession of weapons, modification of a deactivated Makarov pistol into a combat one, and modification of two revolvers. Subsequently, charges of preparing a terrorist attack, assault, possession of explosives, and preparation for manufacturing explosives were added.
'The defendant partially admitted guilt, assuring the court that he visited extremist websites and telegram channels out of curiosity, and conducted aerial photography of the infrastructure of the Southern Administrative District of Moscow for personal interests'," claims TASS.