Anton Mihov
- Criminal Code
- Article 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
- Case category
- Terrorism cases
- Region
- Arkhangelsk Oblast
Case summary
Mihov is a resident of the Arkhangelsk region. Until 2021, he worked as a design engineer at "HS Morskoe proektirovanie" ("HC Marine Design"), and before that he was an employee of "Sevmash", a state-owned enterprise of the "Ob'edinennaya sudostroitelnaya korporatsiya" ("United Shipbuilding Corporation").
On 5 January 2026, TASS reported that Mihov had been detained in a terrorism justification case over a comment left in a June 2025 Telegram chat room about Operation "Pautina" ("Spider Web"), in which Ukrainian drones attacked Russian military airfields. Its content is unknown.
Others charged under Article 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
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