The prosecutor's office of the Irkutsk region filed an appeal against the verdict of the driver of the timber truck Ruslan Zinin, who shot at the military commissar of Ust-Ilimsk Alexander Eliseev. The Solidarity Zone reported this.
The department demands that Zinin’s sentence be increased by one year. According to the prosecutor's office, when passing the sentence, the court did not take into account aggravating circumstances — in particular, the fact that the crime was committed “during the period of mobilization” due to the fact that Eliseev “carried out official activities.” Previously, the defense also appealed the court decision.
On January 19, a trio of judges of the 1st Eastern District Military Court, at a visiting session in the Irkutsk Garrison Court, sentenced Zinin to 19 years in prison. He was found guilty of committingterrorist attack, illegal production and storage of weapons. He will spend the first seven years of his sentence in prison, the rest of the term in a maximum security colony.
“Everyone out!” What do we know about the case of Ruslan Zinin, who shot at the Ust-Ilimsk military commissar
Shortly after the announcement of mobilization in 2022, Zinin came to the military registration and enlistment office on Dekabristov Street and shot three times with a sawn-off shotgun at the military commissar Eliseev, who was speaking to the conscripts. After this, the young man spilled flammable liquid in the assembly hall and set it on fire. Zinin also said that in this way he wanted to prevent the mobilization of his cousin.
Zinin was later detained. As he said during the trial, in the first days after his arrest he was in torture conditions: for two days he was kept in a cell in shackles that fixed his arms and legs, which were not removed from him, and he was not taken to the toilet. Later, according to the young man, during the interrogation the investigator “formulated the answers himself, and did not write down his words,” and the lawyer assigned to him did not talk to him.