A Samara resident was sentenced to 23 years in prison for sabotage at an oil refinery.

The Central District Military Court sentenced Samara resident Sergei Okrushko to 23 years in prison for sabotage on the territory of an oil refinery on instructions from Ukrainian military intelligence in 2023. RIA Novosti reports this with reference to the public relations center of the FSB of Russia.

The convicted person will spend the first seven years in prison, and the remaining part in a maximum security colony. He was found guilty of treason, illegal trafficking in explosive devices, undergoing training in terrorist activities and participation in a terrorist community.

Okrushko blew up the transformer substation of the Kuibyshev oil refinery and mined the enterprise, planting two more improvised explosive devices. He was recruited in September 2022 in Chisinau, where he was hiding from partial mobilization into the Russian Armed Forces. A representative of the Ukrainian secret service promised him citizenship of his country and financial assistance in exchange for cooperation. Okrushko accepted the offer, after which his curator instructed him to return to Russia and get a job at an oil refinery, since he is an electrician by profession. A recruited agent found a vacancy for an electrician at the Kuibyshev Oil Refinery in Samara through an advertisement on the Internet.