Mediazona identified two defendants in a case involving arson attacks on railway equipment in Russia's Oryol region: Kemal Karausmanov and Bakir Mamedov. According to official information, two of the three convicted defendants were minors at the time of the alleged acts. Official accounts of the verdict did not name them.
The Oryol Regional Court had sentenced the three defendants to 13 years, eight years and seven years and six months in prison in a case involving treason and railway sabotage. The regional prosecutor's office announced the sentences on October 30, when the verdict had not yet entered into force. Ages of 18–19 cited in official accounts refer to a later point in time, not to the defendants' ages when the alleged offenses occurred.
According to the National Anti-Terrorism Committee, the defendant sentenced to 13 years must serve the first three years in prison and the remainder in a strict-regime penal colony. The other two were assigned to general-regime penal colonies. These details of how the sentences are to be served come from the committee's statement, not a review of the full court judgment.
The regional branch of the Federal Security Service (FSB) alleged that one defendant accepted a paid assignment from a representative of a Ukrainian intelligence service and recruited two acquaintances.