Korshunov Egor Aleksandrovich

On December 25, 2024 in St. Petersburg, two unknown persons set fire to a Molotov cocktail and threw it into the window of the window of the Russian Post office on Bolshevikov Avenue. The first glass of the window shattered and the metal indentation of the window on the street side was melted on an area of 1 square meter. After waiting for the fire to ignite, the unknown persons fled the scene.

In the afternoon of December 27 on charges of arson detained 17-year-old resident of Sestroretsk Daniil Troshin. On the night of December 28 in Kaluga law enforcers detained the second defendant - 16-year-old resident of Kaluga region Yegor Korshunov.

The teenagers were charged with committing a terrorist act by a group of persons by prior conspiracy. According to the investigation, one of the teenagers went to the crime on the instructions of unknown persons who contacted him by phone. The teenagers allegedly received a reward for the arson: 101 thousand rubles received Korshunov, Troshin - 99 thousand rubles.

On December 28 and 29, 2024, the Nevsky District Court of St. Petersburg elected both defendants in the case a measure of restraint in the form of custody.

On October 10, 2025, the 1st Western District Military Court found Daniil Troshin and Yegor Korshunov guilty and sentenced both of them to 6 years' imprisonment in an educational colony. The court also decided to confiscate in favor of the state the young men's cell phones "as a means of committing a crime" and the cash reward, and to destroy their clothes, including balaclavas, "sticky tape, shards of burnt glass and fragments of gauze".

On February 10, 2026, the Military Court of Appeal left the verdict unchanged.