At the entrance of a house on Oblastnaya Street in the Kudrovo district of St. Petersburg, police officers detained a suspect in an attempt to arson the military registration and enlistment office of the Nevsky district, reports Fontanka and 78.RU.
According to information from unnamed publication sources, the detainee was born in Crimea and registered in the Donetsk region of Ukraine.
According to investigators, at about seven in the morning on September 27, the suspect approached the military registration and enlistment office building on Krupskaya Street, 5 and threw a Molotov cocktail at the door of the building. Fontanka published a video from a surveillance camera in which a man with his face covered with a white cloth throws a Molotov cocktail towards the military registration and enlistment office building in the Nevsky district and films it on his phone.
According to 78.RU, the detainee’s name is Alexander Novogrenko. This evening, the joint press service of the courts of St. Petersburg announced the arrest of a person with the same name in the case of an attempted terrorist attack (Part 3 of Article 30 of the Criminal Code, Part 1 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code).
In the Nevsky District Court, Novogrenko said that he lives in St. Petersburg with his mother, is not officially employed, “is experiencing financial difficulties,” and also has a chronic illness.
On September 5, an explosion occurred in the courtyard of the military registration and enlistment office in the Nevsky district of St. Petersburg on Krupskaya Street. According to Fontanka, an improvised explosive device exploded in a nearby ventilation shaft of an abandoned bomb shelter.
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Updated at 19:35: information about the arrest has been added.