The Second Western District Military Court found Sergei Belavin guilty of blowing up the railway near Bryansk in front of a freight train from Belarus. This was reported by a Business FM correspondent from the courtroom.
40-year-old plumber was sentenced to 22 years in prison, four of which he will spend in prison. Belavin was also fined 800 thousand rubles. He was also charged 157,000 rubles in favor of Russian Railways and 400,000 rubles each for the driver and assistant driver of the train.
Belavin was born in the village of Yusva near Perm, but lived in Slavyansk, Donetsk region — he had dual citizenship of Russia and Ukraine. According to investigators, Belavin “no later than February 2019” was recruited by the military intelligence of Ukraine and in 2020-2021 he took “physical and psychological training classes” near Kiev.
According to the case file, in June 2022, a plumber arrived in Voronezh and bought a white Fiat Punto car. Then he took explosives from the cache, made a bomb out of them and installed it on the stretch between the stations of Peschaniki and Robchik in the Bryansk region. It exploded on the morning of July 9, 2022 in front of a freight train from Gomel.
The glass in the driver's cab was damaged, but the train did not derail. It took 10 hours to restore traffic. Belavin was detained a few hours later while driving in the village of Solntsevo in the neighboring Oryol region.
The man pleaded guilty. The case against him was initiated under articles on the commission of a terrorist act (p «a», «c» part 2 of article 205 of the Criminal Code), training in terrorist activities (article 205.3 of the Criminal Code), manufacture and storage of explosives (part 4 of article 222.1, part 3 of article 223.1 of the Criminal Code ).
Sergey Belavin/Investigative Committee