The Southern District Military Court sentenced 41-year-old resident of Ukrainian Enerhodar, Vadim Trachuk, to 25 years in prison for attempting to assassinate the head of the occupation administration and the manager of the Zaporizhzhia NPP, writes 'Mediazona'* citing the court's press service. He was found guilty of 'international terrorism', 'attempted terrorist act', 'participation in a terrorist community', illegal trafficking and manufacturing of explosives with weapons, as well as 'training in terrorist activities'.
The first five years of the sentence Trachuk will serve in prison, the remaining 20 years in a high-security colony. Additionally, he was fined 700 thousand rubles.
According to the prosecution, no later than March 2022, a resident of Enerhodar, who worked as a driver at the Zaporizhzhia NPP, 'decided to become an active participant in the community' of Ukrainian intelligence. That same spring, Trachuk received an assignment to kill the head of the military-civil administration of the city, Andrey Shevchik, using an explosive device.
The investigation claims that on the assignment of a 'curator', he retrieved an electronic key from a cache in the city park to the entrance door where Shevchik lived, placed explosives in an electrical cabinet inside the entrance, keeping the control panel for himself.
On May 22, 2022, the accused carried out the explosion, injuring Shevchik and two of his guards, who sustained moderate injuries.
In August, Trachuk was tasked with obtaining firearms and ammunition 'in a contactless manner'. No later than April 9, 2023, the man received an assignment to kill the deputy director of personnel at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant using explosives.
On April 13, the device was placed in the mailbox of the station employee's apartment, but the next day it was found and defused. 'Memorial'* quoted the interrogation protocol of Andrey Nudga, who allegedly discovered the explosive device in the mailbox and did not report it to the occupation police. It is likely referring to the master of the electrical shop of the Zaporizhzhia thermal power plant, Andrey Borisovich Nudga, who was arrested by the Russians on April 15, 2023. He has already been sentenced to 12 years in prison on charges of 'terrorism'.
On April 16, Trachuk was abducted by FSB officers. The case against the resident of Enerhodar was submitted to the Russian court in June 2024.
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