The State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted a bill that increases criminal liability for terrorist and sabotage offenses. Such liability also threatens citizens who live in the temporarily occupied left bank of the Kherson region.
This information is being disseminated by Kremlin-controlled media.
The law expands the list of crimes for which liability begins at age 14. It concerns articles of the Russian Criminal Code related to participation in terrorist or sabotage groups, facilitating their activities, and undergoing training to carry out sabotage.
In addition, for “involving minors” in such actions a punishment of up to life imprisonment is being introduced.
Russia is also abolishing statutes of limitations for all so-called “sabotage” crimes and restricting the possibility of conditional early release – convicted persons must serve at least three quarters of the term.
Separately, the law establishes full responsibility for organizers of terrorist and sabotage communities for all crimes that, according to the Russian Federation, may have been committed by other members of these groups.
Recall, in early March 2025 Russian President Vladimir Putin said there was a need to strengthen FSB units on the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine – the Kherson region, in particular.
After this it became known that to the so-called Register of Terrorists and Extremists of the Russian Federation they added two minor citizens from the temporarily occupied left bank of the Kherson region.