A court in the city of Raduzhny, Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, sentenced a local resident to two years and four months in a general regime colony who stabbed two of his acquaintances with a knife. As follows from the press service, the court considered the extenuating circumstance that the victims "discredited" the Russian army.
According to investigators, the convict, whose name is not known, drank in the company of other men. When it came to the war in Ukraine, some of those present expressed critical remarks about the actions of Russia, which caused discontent of the convict. He took a kitchen knife and inflicted several blows on two of those present. One of the victims was stabbed at least five times, including in the chest.
The case was initiated under articles on causing minor bodily harm (Article 115 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and causing grievous bodily harm with the use of weapons (Item “h” of Part 2 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The latter charge carries up to 10 years in prison.
The court issued a verdict taking into account mitigating circumstances, one of which recognized “the unlawfulness of the behavior of the victims, which was the reason for the commission of crimes that, in the presence of the defendant and another witness, publicly discredited” the Russian army. As proof of the “guilt” of the victims, decisions of the same Raduzhninsky city court were presented.