The Russian authorities arrested a 17 -year -old as a suspect that he had gathered information to help Ukraine to target Riazan’s Russian Petroleum Refinery by RIA’s Russian State News Agency.

RIA reported that police officers in the Baskortan district arrested the teenager, who was conducting an investigation under the law on “terrorism and betrayal‘providing for sentences of imprisonment to 20 years old.

The RIA reported that the 17 -year -old, whom he did not name, is accused of gathering information in the fall of 2024. was painting graffiti for Ukrainian Information Service in exchange for money. He added that he confessed his crime after questioning.

According to the Russian News Agency, the teenager said he went to Riazan in early January to gather information on the refinery on behalf of the Ukrainians.

The Riazan refinery, located about 240 kilometers south of Moscow, suspended its operation after an attack by Ukrainian unmanned air vehicles yesterday, Monday, three sources in the industry told Reuters.

After all, a resident of the Moscow District was sentenced to imprisonment of 16 year old Because it provided to the Ukraine data to detect a Russian military installation And it was preparing attacks, the Russian Investigative Committee announced today.

By the February 2022 And the Russian attack on Ukraine, Russia began to implement extensive repression of those who criticize the attack. The trials for “Betrayal”, “Terrorism”, “Extremism”, “Slit” or “Spying” multiplied.

This man was accused of photographing April 2024 the place of development of an anti -aircraft defense system in Pontolsk, about 40 kilometers south of Moscow, and that he sent these pictures along with geographical data “In his Ukrainian mentors to direct a blow to unmanned aircraft against this military installation.”according to the announcement by the Investigative Committee.

He is also accused of bringing Russia to Russia from Ukraine to prepare attacks on Russian regions, especially those of Bryansk, Kursk and Belgorod, on the border with Ukraine, according to the same source.

A Russian military court found him guilty of preparing an attack, weapons smuggling and complicity in terrorist activities and condemned him to 16 years in prison, the investigative committee said.