Man who attacked Russian military intelligence officer sentenced to 25 years

The Russian Justice today sentenced a man to 25 years in prison for attacking a Russian military intelligence officer and his wife in July 2024 by placing a bomb in their car. Yevgeny Serebryakov, an analyst at the digital bank TBS Uzbekistan, who will also have to pay a fine of one million rubles (more than 10,000 euros), admitted his guilt, reports the RIA Novosti agency. According to the ruling, Serebriakov, who was recruited by the Ukrainian secret services, will serve five years in a common prison and the rest of the sentence in a maximum-security prison.

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The defense stated during the trial that their client, who was offered money and a Ukrainian passport by Kyiv, was deceived with the argument that the attack would contribute to the end of the war. Serebriakov, 30 years old, who had spoken out against the war in 2014 and 2022, fled to Turkey after committing the attack, but was arrested by that country’s security forces and extradited to Russia. In the explosion of the Land Cruiser brand car, Colonel Andrei Torgashov of Russian military intelligence and his wife were injured. In April, Russian Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik, a high-ranking officer of the General Staff, died due to the explosion of a car bomb in the Moscow region. Lieutenant General Ígor Kirílov, head of Russia’s radiological, chemical, and biological defense, also died in December 2024 in a bombing as he left his home. So, Russian President Vladimir Putin called the attack a “serious failure” by the security services, after which the Russian police said they had thwarted several Ukrainian attacks on Russian territory.