A 53-year-old man threw Molotov cocktails at the military commissariat on Tchaikovsky Street in St. Petersburg, claiming he was lured into taking out multiple loans and coerced by a person pretending to be an FSB officer who promised to help clear his debts in exchange for setting fire to the office.
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A 53-year-old man was duped by scammers posing as FSB officers into setting fire to a military enlistment office
A man in the Russian city of St. Petersburg has rammed into the gates of a military enlistment office and tried to burn it down.
The police encircled the military enlistment office and checked whether there was an explosive inside the vehicle.
The driver of the VAZ vehicle has been detained.
The detainee is a 53-year old St. Petersburg native.
He claims that two weeks ago, a stranger who introduced himself as a member of the FSB texted him on WhatsApp messenger suggesting he conduct an action to gain access to documents allegedly being sent from the enlistment office to Ukraine.
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Extracted: 2026-03-09T10:43:07.025Z
Source story: 20118